Fluid-Fluid Interactions 9781501509407, 9780939950775

Citation preview

REVIEWS IN MINERALOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY Volume 65

2007

FLUID-FLUID INTERACTIONS EDITORS: Axel Lieb scher

Technical University of Berlin Berlin, Germany and

GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam Potsdam, Germany

Christoph A. Heinrich

ETH Zurich Zürich, Switzerland

C O V E R F I G U R E C A P T I O N : Fluid inclusion trail in quartz from Stronghold Granite, Arizona. Separately trapped inclusions of co-existing vapor and hypersaline liquid (brine) demonstrate phase separation at near-magmatic temperature. The high-density brine inclusions are saltsaturated after cooling to ambient conditions, containing halite and sylvite daughter crystals; the vapor inclusions contain a large bubble and a little aqueous liquid; the largest inclusion has trapped a random mixture of the two fluids and thus shows intermediate phase proportions after cooling (photomicrograph courtesy of Andreas Audetat, Bayreuth); H 2 0-NaCl phase diagram is redrawn after Heinrich CA, Driesner T, Stefansson A, Seward T M (2004, Magmatic vapor contraction and the transport of gold from the porphyry environment to epithermal ore deposits. Geology 32:761-764).

Series Editor: Jodi J. Rosso MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA GEOCHEMICAL SOCIETY

SHORT COURSE SERIES DEDICATION Dr. William C. Luth has had a long and distinguished career in research, education and in the government. He was a leader in experimental petrology and in training graduate students at Stanford University. His efforts at Sandia National Laboratory and at the Department of Energy's headquarters resulted in the initiation and long-term support of many of the cutting edge research projects whose results form the foundations of these short courses. Bill's broad interest in understanding fundamental geochemical processes and their applications to national problems is a continuous thread through both his university and government career. He retired in 1996, but his efforts to foster excellent basic research, and to promote the development of advanced analytical capabilities gave a unique focus to the basic research portfolio in Geosciences at the Department of Energy. He has been, and continues to be, a friend and mentor to many of us. It is appropriate to celebrate his career in education and government service with this series of courses.

Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Volume 65 Fluid-Fluid Interactions ISSN ISBN

1529-6466

978-0-939950-77-5

COPYRIGHT 2 0 0 7 THE M I N E R A L O G I C A L

S O C I E T Y OF A M E R I C A

3 6 3 5 CONCORDE PARKWAY, SUITE 5 0 0 CHANTILLY, VIRGINIA, 2 0 1 5 1 - 1 1 2 5 , U . S . A . WWW.MINSOCAM.ORG The appearance of the code at the bottom of the first page of each chapter in this volume indicates the copyright owner's consent that copies of the article can be made for personal use or internal use or for the personal use or internal use of specific clients, provided the original publication is cited. The consent is given on the condition, however, that the copier pay the stated per-copy fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. for copying beyond that permitted by Sections 107 or 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law. This consent does not extend to other types of copying for general distribution, for advertising or promotional purposes, for creating new collective works, or for resale. For permission to reprint entire articles in these cases and the like, consult the Administrator of the Mineralogical Society of America as to the royalty due to the Society.

FLUID-FLUID INTERACTIONS 65

Reviews in Mineralogy and. Geochemistry

65

FROM THE EDITORS The review chapters in this volume were the basis for a two day short course on Fluid-Fluid Equilibria in the Crust held at the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Germany (August 16-17, 2007) prior to the Goldschmidt Conference 2007 in Cologne, Germany. This meeting and volume were sponsored by the Mineralogical Society of America, Geochemical Society, and the United States Department of Energy. Any supplemental material and errata (if any) can be found at the MSA website www.minsocam.org. Todi 3". Posso, Series Editor West Richland, Washington June 2007

We thank the Mineralogical Society of America and the Geochemical Society for giving us the opportunity to edit this volume. We are grateful to all authors, who contributed state-of-the-art chapters on the various topics of fluidfluid interactions. However, editing this volume would not have been possible without the assistance and editorial work of Jodi J. Rosso, which we especially acknowledge. We also thank all the reviewers for the individual chapters: A. Audétat, A. Belonoshko, L. Cathles, J. Cleverly, J. Hedenquist, S. Ingebritsen, H. Keppler, S. Kesler, P. Nabelek, R. Sadus, S. Simmons, A. Stavland, D. Vielzeuf, B.W.D. Yardley, who have done an excellent job and helped us to complete the editorial work in time. Axel Liebscher Berlin & Potsdam, Germany

1529-6466/07/0065-0000505.00

Christoph A. Heinrich Zürich, Switzerland

DOI: 10.2138/rmg.2007.65.0

FLUID-FLUID INTERACTIONS 65

Reviews in Mineralogy and. Geochemistry

65

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1

Fluid-Fluid Interactions in the Earth's Lithosphere Axel Liebscher, Christoph A. Heinrich

INTRODUCTION GEOLOGIC ENVIRONMENTS OF TWO-PHASE FLUIDS PRINCIPAL PHASE RELATIONS IN TWO-PHASE FLUID SYSTEMS One-component systems Binary fluid systems TERMINOLOGY OF FLUID PHASES AND PROCESSES Terms to describe fluid phases Terms describing fluid processes involving one or two phases A note on the term "supercritical" COMPOSITION AND PHASE STATE OF COMMON CRUSTAL FLUIDS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES

Z

1 2 5 5 5 8 8 9 10 10 12 12

Experimental Studies in Model Fluid Systems Axel Liebscher

INTRODUCTION DATA COMPILATION AND PRESENTATION EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO FLUID-FLUID STUDIES P-V-T-x RELATIONS IN BINARY MODEL FLUID SYSTEMS H 2 0-non polar gas systems H 2 0-salt systems Other binary system P-V-T-x RELATIONS IN TERNARY MODEL FLUID SYSTEMS I I O N;t( 1 CO. system H O CuC! CO system I I O \;i( ! ( II; v

15 16 17 19 19 21 29 29 29 31 32

Fluid-Fluid

Interactions

- Table of

Contents

Limits of immiscibility in ternary H 2 0-salt-non polar gas systems Other ternary systems TRACE ELEMENT AND STABLE ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION Trace element fractionation Stable isotope fractionation FLUID-MINERAL AND FLUID-ROCK INTERACTIONS UNDER TWO I I I II) PHASE CONDITIONS CONCLUDING REMARKS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES

«3

34 34 35 35 36 39 42 43 43

Equations of State for Complex Fluids Matthias Gottschalk

INTRODUCTION PRINCIPLES TYPES OF EOS Ideal gas Virial equation Cubic EOS Hard-sphere extension of the EOS Integrated EOS MIXING AND COMBINING RULES SPECIFIC EOS FOR MIXTURES APPLICABLE TO GEOLOGIC SETTINGS Holloway (1976), Holloway (1981) Bowers and Helgeson (1983) Kerrick and Jacobs (1981), Jacobs and Kerrick (1981a,b) Rimbach and Chatterjee (1987) Grevel and Chatterjee (1992) Grevel (1993) Spycher and Reed (1988) Saxena and Fei (1987, 1988) Shi and Saxena(1992) Belonoshko and Saxena (1992c), Belonoshko et al. (1992) Duanetal. (1992c, 1996) Duan et al. (1992a,b) Duan and Zhang (2006) Anderko and Pitzer (1993a,b), Duan et al. (1995) Duanetal. (2003) Jiang and Pitzer (1996), Duan et al. (2006) Churakov and Gottschalk (2003a,b) CALCULATION OF PHASE EQUILIBRIA CONCLUSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES vi

49 49 53 53 53 54 56 57 59 61 62 62 63 63 64 64 64 65 66 66 67 68 69 69 72 72 72 73 73 75 75

Fluid-Fluid

Interactions

- Table of

Contents

APPENDIX A Derivations P and T as state variables V and T as state variables v and T as state variables p and T as state variables U, H, and S as a function of the state variables V, P and T APPENDIX B Fugacity coefficients Excess Helmholtz free energy a"cess Compressibility factor z Derivatives of a"cess with respect to x, Fugacity coefficients Other versions and misprints of constants in parameter functions

T1

78 78 79 82 85 87 88 91 91 91 94 95 97 97

Liquid Immiscibility in Silicate Melts and Related Systems Alan B. Thompson, Maarten Aerts, Alistair C. Hack

INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL IMMISCIBLE SYSTEMS Immiscible anhydrous silicate melts and magmas LIQUID IMMISCIBILITY IN SILICATE MELTS Silicate-oxide anhydrous molten binary systems and the role of network-forming and network-modifying cations Factors controlling immiscibility or supercriticality in anhydrous silicate-oxide binary molten systems Effect of higher pressure on liquid immiscibility in anhydrous molten silicate binaries Simplified representations of immiscibility, miscibility and supercriticality TERNARY AND HIGHER ANHYDROUS MOLTEN SILICATE SYSTEMS The double role of A1203 in silicate melts Immiscibility in mineral ternary alkali-aluminosilicate melts Summary for anhydrous silicate melt systems MOLTEN SILICATE-CARBONATE SYSTEMS ANHYDROUS MOLTEN SILICATE SYSTEMS WITH PHOSPHOROUS, FLUORINE, CHLORINE, BORON, SULFUR SUPERCRITICAL OR SUPERSOLVUS MELTS IN ANHYDROUS SILICATE ROCK SYSTEMS AT HIGHER PRESSURE? Simplified peridotite mantle Simplified basaltic crust Simplified felsic crust CONCLUDING REMARKS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES

vii

99 101 101 101 105 106 107 107 Ill Ill 114 114 118 119 119 120 121 122 122 123

Fluid-Fluid

3

Interactions

- Table of

Contents

Phase Relations Involving Hydrous Silicate Melts, Aqueous Fluids, and Minerals Alistair C. Hack, Alan B. Thompson, Maarten Aerts

IMMISCIBILITY IN NATURAL SYSTEMS INVOLVING HYDROUS SU l( Al l! Ml I I S Supercritical H 2 0 Critical behavior systematics for H 2 0 with added components Phase separation in subsolidus and supersolidus systems The general role of H 2 0 and other volatiles in silicate melt immiscibility Brief history of supercritical fluid research INTRODUCTION TO FLUID PHASE RELATIONS: LIMITATIONS OF SOLID-WATER SYSTEMS AS IDEAL BINARIES Two basic phase relation topologies of A - H 2 0 binary systems Further types of L - V phase relations MINERAI H O SYSTEMS Si0 2 (quartz)-H 2 0 NaAlSi 3 0 8 (albite)-H 2 0 Effect of added volatiles on critical behavior in S i 0 2 - H 2 0 and NaAlSi 3 0 8 -H 2 0 Effects of non-volatile components on critical behavior in N;iAISi;( )„ H O and Si(). H O ROCK H O SYSTEMS General A - B - H 2 0 ternary phase relations involving L - V supercriticality NaAlSi0 4 -Si0 2 -H 2 0 (nepheline-quartz-H 2 0) Haplogranite-water (quartz+albite+K-feldspar+H 2 0±anorthite) Pegmatites Peridotite-water: M g 0 - S i 0 2 - H 2 0 (forsterite+enstatite+quartz+H 2 0) Eclogite-water (garnet+omphacite+coesite+kyanite+rutile+H 2 0) FLUID PHYSICAL PROPERTIES, COMPOSITION AND P-TTATHS Clapeyron slope of critical curves and fluid density Cooling or decompression paths crossing critical curves Viscosity of silicate-bearing aqueous fluids Precipitation and dissolution on flow paths, L - V immiscibility, single-phase fluids and metasomatism FLUID EVOLUTION IN LARGE SCALE TECTONIC PROCESSES Oceanic lithosphere subduction environments Supercritical fluids in the earth's mantle? NATURAL SYSTEMS: WHERE ARE IMMISCIBILITY, SUPERCRITICALITY I IKI I Y TO OCCUR? Natural systems Extent of immiscibility and supercriticality in natural processes What to do next? ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES

viii

129 130 130 131 131 132 132 133 137 139 140 143 146 148 149 149 151 155 157 158 163 166 166 168 168 170 172 173 174 175 175 176 176 177 177

Fluid-Fluid

O

Interactions

- Table of

Contents

Numerical Simulation of Multiphase Fluid Flow in Hydrothermal Systems Thomas Driesner, Sebastian Geiger

INTRODUCTION Mi: I IIODS Model discretization Mass conservation equations Momentum conservation Energy conservation equation Computation of pressure changes Solving the equations PERMEABILITY AND THERMAL EVOLUTION OF HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS Permeability, discharge, recharge and efficiency of heat transfer Thermal evolution patterns above a cooling pluton COMPARING FLUID INCLUSION DATA AND SIMULATION PREDICTIONS FLOW OF SALINE FLUIDS IN MAGMATIC-HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS Porphyry case study OUTLOOK ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES

/

187 188 188 189 189 190 191 191 192 193 195 200 203 204 207 210 210

Fluid Phase Separation Processes in Submarine Hydrothermal Systems Dionysis I. Foustoukos, William E. Seyfried, Jr.

INTRODUCTION PHASE RELATIONS IN THE NuC! I K ) SYSTEM FIELD OBSERVATIONS OF PHASE SEPARATION IN SUBMARINE HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF PHASE SEPARATION IN THE NuCl I K ) SYSTEM Empirical expressions and theoretical modeling Elemental partitioning between vapor-liquid and vapor-halite Stable isotope fractionation in the two-phase region of the NaCl-H 2 0 system Phase separation and mineral-fluid equilibria FINAL REMARKS - NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES

ix

213 215 218 221 221 222 225 228 232 233 233

Fluid-Fluid

Ö

Interactions

- Table of

Contents

Fluids in Hydrocarbon Basins Karen S. Pedersen, Peter L. Christensen

INTRODUCTION PHASE DIAGRAMS Pure components: methane (CH4) and ethane (C2H6) Multicomponent hydrocarbon fluids PHYSICAL AND TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF HYDROCARBON FLUIDS PROPERTIES OF HYDROCARBON SYSTEMS EXPRESSED IN BLACK Oil TERMS COMPOSITIONAL VARIATIONS WITH DEPTH HYDROCARBON-WATER PHASE EQUILIBRIA CO.. SEQUESTRATION REFERENCES

7

241 242 242 243 245 248 248 252 253 256

Fluid-Fluid Interactions in Geothermal Systems Stefan Arndrsson, Andri Stefansson, Jon Orn Bjarnason

INTRODUCTION BASIC FEATURES OF GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS Types of geothermal systems Geological structure of volcanic geothermal systems Temperature and pressure TRANSFER OF HEAT GEOTHERMAL FLUIDS Primary and secondary geothermal fluids Chemical composition of primary fluids Secondary fluids BOILING AND PHASE SEGREGATION The boiling point curve Effect of dissolved gases Liquid-vapor separation under natural conditions Vapor-dominated systems Boiling and fluid phase segregation in wells and producing aquifers INITIAL AND EQUILIBRIUM VAPOR FRACTIONS GAS CHEMISTRY BOILING AND CHANGES IN MINERAL SATURATION Changes in fluid composition during boiling and degassing Mineral deposition with special reference to calcite MODELING OF AQUIFER FLUID COMPOSITIONS Boiling hot springs Wet-steam well discharges FUTURE DIRECTIONS x

259 259 260 261 261 262 263 263 263 267 269 270 271 272 272 273 278 280 287 287 289 290 291 293 297

Fluid-Fluid

Interactions

- Table of

Contents

LIST OF SYMBOLS 298 REFERENCES 300 APPENDIX 1 - DERIVATION OF EQUATIONS TO CALCULATE AQUIFER STEAM FRACTIONS AND FLUID COMPOSITIONS FOR WET-STEAM WELLS 306 Model 1 : Isolated system 307 Model 2: Closed system; conductive heat flow to fluid 308 Model 3: Open system; liquid retained in formation 309 Model 4: Open system; liquid retained in formation; steam inflow 310 Model 5: Open system; liquid retained in formation; conductive heat flow to fluid 311

IU

Fluid Immiscibility in Volcanic Environments James D. Webster, Charles U'. Martdeville

INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OBSERVATIONAL, ANALYTICAL, AND THEORETICAL EVIDENCE FOR MULTIPLE FLUIDS IN VOLCANIC ENVIRONMENTS Fluid immiscibility in model systems Intensive properties of fluids in volcanic environments Volcanic crater lakes Submarine volcanic environments Magma conduits and shallow plutonic magmas that underlie volcanoes Alkaline and carbonate-rich magmas Experimental petrology: evidence of multiple fluids coexisting with aluminosilicate melts Constraints from stable isotope geochemistry SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATION TO VOLCANIC PROCESSES Review of two fluids in volcanic environments Fractionation of volatile components between fluids Consequences of two fluids in volcanic environments ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES

I I

313 313 315 315 317 327 329 331 332 333 338 343 343 344 345 348 349

Fluid-Fluid Interactions in MagmaticHydrothermal Ore Formation Christoph A. Heinrich

INTRODUCTION CHEMICAL CONSEQUENCES OF FLUID PHASE SEPARATION Principles of hydrothermal ore formation xi

363 365 365

Fluid-Fluid

Interactions

- Table of

Contents

Mineral precipitation by low-pressure boiling Ore-metal fractionation between vapor and hypersaline liquids OROGENIC GOLD DEPOSITS: CRUSTAL-SCALE ORE SYSTEMS FLUID MIXING AND ORE DEPOSITION: GRANITE-RELATED Sn-W VEINS LIQUID - VAPOR EVOLUTION IN PORPHYRY - EPITHERMAL SYSTEMS Geological observations Fluid evolution paths in Cu-Au mineralizing systems SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES

I I-

366 366 370 371 375 375 376 381 382 382

Fluid Immiscibility in Metamorphic Rocks Wilhelm Heinrich

INTRODUCTION FLUID PHASE RELATIONS Binary fluid systems Phase relations in the system H 2 0-C0 2 -NaCl H 2 0-C0 2 -CaCl 2 ILO ( I F \;i( 1 PHASE RELATIONS AND FLUID EVOLUTION IN THE CaO-MgOSiO. H O CO. N;t( 1 MODEL SYSTEM PHYSICAL BEHAVIOR OF IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS The record of fluid inclusions in metamorphic rocks: problems with selective entrapment and post-entrapment modifications Fluid phase separation and two fluid flow in metamorphic rocks Geophysical consequences of fluid unmixing FIELD STUDIES The seminal studies: marbles from Campolungo, Lepontine Alps Contact metamorphism Regional and subduction-related metamorphism CONCLUDING REMARKS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES

xii

389 390 390 391 393 394 394 403 403 406 407 407 408 409 419 423 424 424

1

Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry Vol. 65, pp. 1-13,2007 Copyright © Mineralogical Society of America

Fluid-Fluid Interactions in the Earth's Lithosphere Axel Liebscher Institute for Applied Geosciences Technical University of Berlin D-13355 Berlin, Germany

Department 4, Chemistry of the Earth GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam Telegrafenberg D-14473 Potsdam, Germany

[email protected]

Christoph A. Heinrich Isotope Geochemistry and Mineral Resources Departement Erdwissenschaften NO ETH Zentrum CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland christoph. heinrich @ erdw. ethz. ch

INTRODUCTION Fluids rich in water, carbon and sulfur species and a variety of dissolved salts are a ubiquitous transport medium for heat and matter in the Earth's interior. Fluid transport through the upper mantle and crust controls the origin of magmatism above subduction zones and results in natural risks of explosive volcanism. Fluids passing through rocks affect the chemical and heat budget of the global oceans, and can be utilized as a source of geothermal energy on land. Fluid transport is a key to the formation and the practical utilization of natural resources, from the origin of hydrothermal mineral deposits, through the exploitation of gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons as sources of energy and essential raw materials, to the subsurface storage of waste materials such as C0 2 . Different sources of fluids and variable paths of recycling volatile components from the hydrosphere and atmosphere through the solid interior of the Earth lead to a broad range of fluid compositions, from aqueous liquids and gases through water-rich silicate or salt melts to carbon-rich endmember compositions. Different rock regimes in the crust and mantle generate characteristic ranges of fluid composition, which depending on pressure, temperature and composition are miscible to greatly variable degrees. For example, aqueous liquids and vapors are increasingly miscible at elevated pressure and temperature. The degree of this miscibility is, however, greatly influenced by the presence of additional carbonic or salt components. A wide range of fluid-fluid interactions results from this partial miscibility of crustal fluids. Vastly different chemical and physical properties of variably miscible fluids, combined with fluid flow from one pressure - temperature regime to another, therefore have major consequences for the chemical and physical evolution of the crust and mantle. Several recent textbooks (e.g., Walther and Wood 1986; Carrol and Holloway 1994; Shmulovich et al. 1995; Jamtveit and Yardley 1997) and review articles (e.g., Brimhall and Crerar 1987; Eugster and Baumgartner 1987; Ferry and Baumgartner 1987; Ague 2003; Frape et al. 2003; German and Von Damm 2003; Kharaka and Hanor 2003; Schmidt and Poli 2003; Bodnar 2005; Kesler 2005; De Vivo et al. 2005; Green and Jung 2005) have addressed the role and diverse aspects of fluids in crustal processes. However, immiscibility of fluids and the associated phenomena of multiphase fluid flow are generally dealt with only in subsections 1529-6466/07/0065-0001 $05.00

DOI: 10.2138/rmg.2007.65.1

2

Liebscher &

Heinrich

with respect to specific environments and aspects of fluid mediated processes. This volume of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry attempts to fill this gap and to explicitly focus on the role that co-existing fluids play in the diverse geologic environments. It brings together the previously somewhat detached literature on fluid-fluid interactions in continental, volcanic, submarine and subduction zone environments. It emphasizes that fluid mixing and unmixing are widespread processes that may occur in all geologic environments of the entire crust and upper mantle. Despite different P-T conditions, the fundamental processes are analogous in the different settings. The next two chapters of the book summarize the state of knowledge of the physical and chemical properties of coexisting crustal and upper-mantle fluids and their description with equations of state. Even though the book primarily focuses on fluids rich in volatile components and salts, some of the general principles of phase topology were first derived from theory and experiments on immiscible melt systems with or without water, which are therefore included as separate Chapters 4 and 5. After a chapter on numerical modeling of two-phase fluid flow, the remaining chapters review the processes of fluid-fluid interaction in different geological regimes, invariably emphasizing the close link between fluid properties and dynamic processes—many of which are of great practical relevance for assessing natural risks and for the supply of natural resources.

GEOLOGIC ENVIRONMENTS OF TWO-PHASE FLUIDS In this introductory chapter we briefly address the different geologic environments in which crustal fluids may evolve (Fig. 1). We will then define some of the terms that are commonly used to describe different fluid phases and their interactions and introduce the principal thermodynamic phase relationships that control the compositional variation and other properties of crustal fluids (Figs. 2 to 5). For details, full referencing and in-depth discussion of these topics, the reader is referred to the individual chapters of this volume. From a global perspective, water-bearing fluids link the different spheres of the Earth in very distinct environments (Fig. 1). In all of these settings at least two, and sometimes three fluid phases can stably coexist and interact with each other, as demonstrated by experimental data (Liebscher 2007, this volume), fluid inclusion observations and other geological evidence reviewed in the chapters of this book. Submarine hydrothermal systems (Fig. lb) chemically link the oceans with the oceanic crust, which itself has been extracted from the mantle (Foustoukos and Seyfried 2007, this volume). The oceanic crust becomes chemically modified by reaction with thermally convecting seawater circulating through it, but in turn modifies the chemical and isotopic composition of the seawater itself. Such hydrothermal systems develop primarily along mid ocean ridges (MOR) but also along back-arc spreading centers as well as in oceanic rift basins and around the submersed parts of intraplate volcanoes. The heat source of these dominantly dry basaltic systems is magmatic, but the overwhelming fluid source is seawater, infiltrating the oceanic crust and leading to spectacular black and white smokers on the seafloor. Fluidfluid separation is primarily witnessed by large salinity variations within vent fluids not only on a global scale but also between neighboring vents from individual vent fields. Interaction between heated seawater and rocks on the ocean floor extracts material from the oceanic crust and supplies it to the oceans, and also hydrates and metasomatizes the initially dry oceanic crust. Metamorphic fluid systems (Figs. lc,d) are created by devolatilization reactions resulting when metasomatized oceanic crust and overlying sediments are subducted at convergent plate boundaries, or where continental collision leads to crustal thickening and regional metamorphism. Prograde metamorphic reactions generally lead to relatively low-

Introduction to Fluid-Fluid Interactions in the Lithosphere

3

4

Liebscher &

Heinrich

salinity metamorphic fluids, but increasing contributions of C 0 2 by carbonate-consuming reactions at high pressures and temperatures may generate aquo-carbonic fluids plus a stably coexisting fluid phase enriched in the salt components (Heinrich 2007b, this volume). A key conclusion of the chapter by W. Heinrich is that metamorphic fluids are more commonly in the two-phase state than previously thought, and that high-salinity fluids with reduced water activity can have a profound effect on metamorphic mineral stability relations. When crustal material is subducted to the deep slab and mantle environment (Fig. lc), further heating and compression produces fluids by high-pressure dehydration to eclogitefacies mineral assemblages. These fluids are expelled from the slab and can rise into the hotter overriding mantle, where they become an essential ingredient for the generation of calcalkaline magmas. At these conditions, the solubility of silicates in the water-rich fluid may increase to the point that aqueous solution and hydrous silicate melt become indistinguishable, as the two distinct coexisting mobile phases give way to a single-phase homogeneous mixture of water and silicate components in any proportion. This is discussed in the chapters by Hack et al. (2007, this volume) and Thompson et al. (2007, this volume), as an illustration of the principles of critical phase behavior in variably hydrous fluid-melt systems. Slab-derived high-pressure fluids and mantle-derived silicate melts enriched in volatile components migrate upwards and ultimately recycle their volatile load to the surface and the atmosphere in subduction-related magmatic-hydrothermal environments (Fig. Id). During ascent, they contribute to the evolution of calcalkaline magmas. From these, fluids of greatly variable composition density and viscosity are expelled, depending primarily on depth and temperature of emplacement of the magma and its crystallization in the crust. Thus, extremely saline fluids approaching hydrous salt melts can be generated, as well as partly coexisting vapor-like fluids of variable density and salinity. Resulting processes are reviewed in the chapters of Webster and Mandeville (2007, this volume) focusing primarily on volcanic processes including fumaroles and explosive eruptions, and by C. Heinrich (2007a, this volume) emphasizing fluid-fluid interactions in the subvolcanic to plutonic realm. Here, important types of mineral deposits are formed as a direct consequence of fluid mixing and phase separation, as further illustrated by numerical modeling of heat and mass transfer by multiple-phase fluid flow (Driesner and Geiger 2007, this volume). Fluids from plutons also contribute important components to contact metamorphic fluid systems (Fig. Id) Here, aquocarbonic fluids plus a stably coexisting fluid phase enriched in the salt components may form, which are compositionally similar to fluids in other metamorphic systems (Heinrich 2007b, this volume). Fluid processes in continental geothermal systems (Fig. Id), discussed by Arnorsson et al. (2007, this volume), are commonly linked to magmatism as well. They involve aqueous fluids of variable salinity, ranging from essentially salt-free meteoric water through shallow-circulating seawater to saline basin brines in continental rifts. The aqueous fluids are predominantly derived from the hydrosphere but may contain notable quantities of magmatic fluids. The generally dominant aqueous liquid commonly coexist with low-density vapor phase. Fluid mixing and fluid-phase separation are first-order processes governing the chemical and physical evolution of fluids in geothermal systems (Arnorsson et al. 2007) Variably saline aqueous fluids coexist with liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons in sedimentary basins (Fig. Id), which are discussed by Pedersen and Christensen (2007). These basinal fluid systems are developed in the upper parts of the continental crust above the brittle-ductile transition, and are therefore mostly unconfined at the top, but can become confined by compaction and cementation in their deeper parts. Aqueous fluids are meteoric and/or diagenetic in origin, locally with a deep crustal or even mantle component to their gas budget as indicated by helium and its isotopes. Up to three fluid phases can stably coexist and interact with each other and with the sedimentary rocks: variably saline aqueous liquid, a

Introduction

to Fluid-Fluid

Interactions

in the

Lithosphere

5

liquid petroleum phase, and a gas phase ranging from low-density water vapor to compressed mixtures of methane, carbon dioxide and other gases.

PRINCIPAL PHASE RELATIONS IN TWO-PHASE FLUID SYSTEMS As a basis for further discussion throughout this volume, some general principles of fluid phase stability relations are illustrated using selected unary and binary systems. These are later followed up by a detailed review of experimental studies in geologically important model systems (Liebscher 2007), and a critical compilation of equations of state that were developed to mathematically describing phase properties as well as limiting miscibility surfaces (Gottschalk 2007).

One-component systems In any one-component system (e.g., H 2 0, C0 2 , but also N 2 , NaCl, Si0 2 ), all three phase states, i.e., solid, liquid and vapor, have identical composition. Their P-T stability fields are divariant and limited by the univariant solid-liquid, solid-vapor, and liquid-vapor equilibria, which meet at the invariant triple point where solid, liquid, and vapor coexist (Figs. 2a,b). In one-component systems, coexistence of liquid and vapor is restricted to the liquid-vapor equilibrium, which generally shifts to higher pressure with increasing temperature. While coexisting liquid and vapor along the liquid-vapor equilibrium curve have identical composition in one-component systems, they differ in physical properties like density (Fig. 2c) or viscosity. With increasing P and T along the equilibrium curve, however, any difference in physical properties between liquid and vapor continuously decreases and completely vanishes at the invariant critical point with Pc, Tc, and critical density pc. At P > Pc and T> Tc, liquid and vapor are physically indistinguishable and only one single phase fluid exists.

Binary fluid systems The liquid-vapor phase topology of a one-component system changes drastically when a second component is added to the system. This additional component partitions either in favor of the liquid or in favor of the vapor. In two-component systems, coexisting liquid and vapor therefore not only differ in physical properties but also in composition. With composition as additional variable, the invariant critical point of the one-component system turns into the univariant critical curve of the two-component system (Fig. 2d), along which liquid and vapor attain identical physical and chemical properties. The orientation of the resulting critical curve in P-T space with respect to the critical isochore (i.e., line of constant critical density pc) of the one-component system depends on the relative partitioning of the additional component between liquid and vapor: if the additional component has a preference for the liquid (e.g., NaCl in H 2 0) the critical curve will be at lower P; if the additional component has a preference for the vapor (e.g., C 0 2 or CH 4 in H 2 0) it will be at higher P than the critical isochore of the one-component system (Fig. 2d). With respect to crustal hydrothermal systems, the most important two-component systems are water-salt systems with highly soluble salts, like H 2 0-NaCl or H 2 0-CaCl 2 , and water-gas systems such as H 2 0-C0 2 , which have dramatically different properties. In most water-salt systems (Fig. 3a,b), the critical curve is continuous over the entire P-T-x range and connects the critical points of the pure H 2 0 and salt system, respectively. At pressure below the critical curve, liquid and vapor of different composition and different physical properties coexist and form a two-fluid phase "tunnel" in P-T-x space. For any given temperature, the differences in physical and chemical properties of vapor and liquid increase along the tunnel surface with decreasing pressure. The two-fluid phase tunnel is limited towards lower pressure conditions by its intersection with the liquid-salt solubility surface. This intersection is called the solubility curve or vapor + liquid + solid salt equilibrium.

6

Liebscher a)

&

critical isochore

liquid

; vapor

solid id ("ice

co2

b)

H2O

critical / point

Heinrich

f

£

liquid

7.4 —|

vapor

(steam)

k

solid

\ 0.521

triple point

0.01 374 Temperature [°C]

critical isochore

critical point

J

triple point

31 Temperature [°C]

•56.6

Figure 2. Pressure-temperature solid-liquid-vapor phase relations; (a) H 2 0 and (b) C 0 2 system. Divariant curves s + v, s + 1, and 1 + v denote two-phase coexistence of solid (s), vapor (v) and/or liquid (1). In one-component or unary systems, coexistence of vapor and liquid is restricted to the 1 + v equilibrium. The 1 + v equilibrium terminates (or vanishes) at the critical point. "Critical isochore" denotes the line of constant, critical density (p crit ) in P-T space. The critical isochore may be used to distinguish between liquid (p > pCIit.) and vapor (p < prcrit.) even in the single phase fluid region, (c) Temperature - density relations in the H 2 0 system. Solid lines are isobars with pressure given at the top. Below the critical point, low-density vapor coexists with higher density liquid. With increasing temperature, the density contrast between vapor and liquid increases along the 1 + v equilibrium. (d) Effect of additional components on the critical behavior of H 2 0 dominated fluids. In two-component systems, the critical point turns into a critical curve, the principal orientation of which depends on the relative preference of the additional component for vapor (e.g., CO,. CH 4 , N 2 ) or liquid (e.g., NaCl).

Along this equilibrium, vapor, liquid, and solid salt coexist (i.e., both vapor and liquid are salt saturated), whereas at pressure conditions below the solubility curve, solid salt coexists with salt-saturated vapor only. The solubility curve terminates at the triple point of the pure salt system, usually at very high temperature but low pressure. Two-component systems between H 2 0 and highly soluble salts, exemplified by the H 2 0 NaCl model system, show continuous critical and solubility curves over the entire P-T-x space.

Introduction

to Fluid-Fluid

Interactions

in the

Lithosphere

7

Systems with continuous critical and solubility curve (e.g., H20-NaCI)

a)

b)

cótica I ct//v„ .»oal curw.

Temperature

H20 salt

Systems with discontinuous critical and solubility curve (e.g. H 2 0 - B a C I 2 , H 2 0 - S i 0 2 )

d) upper

Temperature salt Figure 3. Principal fluid phase relations in two-component systems. Depending on the continuity of critical and solubility curve, two types of systems can be distinguished: Systems with continuous critical and solubility curves over the entire P-T-x space (a, b) and systems with discontinuous critical and solubility curves resulting in two critical endpoints, at which critical and solubility curve terminate (c, d). The first type of systems is typical for highly soluble components like H 2 0 - N a C whereas the second type is typical for only sparingly soluble components like H 2 0-silicates (see text for more details); (a) redrawn and modified f r o m Skippen (1988).

Alternatively, if the salt (e.g., BaCl2) or oxide component (e.g., Si0 2 ) is only slightly soluble in H 2 0 (and vice versa), the solubility curve shifts to notably higher pressure conditions, thereby intersecting the critical curve (Fig. 3c,d). In such systems, neither the critical curve, nor the solubility curve, nor the two-fluid phase tunnel are continuous over the entire P-T-x space. Instead, two separate two-fluid phase volumes occur, which are separated by a single phase fluid + salt or oxide component field. The intersections of the solubility curve with the critical curve are termed lower and upper critical endpoints and are invariant in P-T-x space. In systems with silicates as the component in addition to water, the high-temperature region describes the wet melting behavior of the system, and the solubility curve is called the wet solidus. Further discussion of fluid-solid-melt phase relations can be found in the chapters of Thompson et al. (2007) and Hack et al. (2007). Binary systems of water and a non-polar gas component, exemplified by the H 2 0 - C 0 2 system, have notably different fluid properties than the typical H 2 0-salt systems. The P-T dependence of their two-phase surface differs significantly from that of the typical H 2 0-salt

8

Liebscher &

Heinrich

systems, reflecting the highly volatile and compressible nature of the second component. The critical curve shows a minimum as a function of pressure near 170 MPa, 265 °C and xCOl ~ 0.3, and the limiting two-phase immiscibility surface becomes narrower not only with increasing pressure, but also with increasing temperature. As a result, binary H 2 0 - C 0 2 fluids exist as completely miscible single phase already at relatively shallow depths in the Earths interior, at all temperatures in excess of 350 to 400 °C. On the other hand, C 0 2 and NaCl are almost immiscible at all geologically relevant conditions, and this is the reason why ternary fluids, containing water plus salts as well as C0 2 , can show two-phase fluid coexistence throughout the entire range of P-Tconditions in the crust (Liebscher 2007; Heinrich 2007b).

TERMINOLOGY OF FLUID PHASES AND PROCESSES Due to the complex topology of phase stability fields in the H 2 0 - C 0 2 - N a C l fluid system (± CH 4 ± other salts), different P-T evolutions along the flow path of fluids through the Earth's lithosphere can lead to very different processes of fluid-fluid interaction. Fluids change their density and may mix or un-mix and the resulting phases may segregate from each other due to their different physical properties. To describe such processes with reference to experimental phase diagrams, a consistent terminology for phases and fluid interactions is desirable. The following terms (Heinrich 2005; Williams-Jones and Heinrich 2005) approximate the common usage in fluid-inclusion research, where the first evidence of multiple coexisting fluids in the earths interior originated (Roedder 1984; Samson et al. 2003). These widely used fluid terms can be consistently defined in H 2 0 - non-polar gas - salt systems of geological relevance, but they are not theoretically rigorous for fluid phase topologies in all other chemical systems. This is exemplified in the chapters by Thompson et al. (2007) and Hack et al. (2007), illustrating the stability relationships in melt-melt and melt-aqueous fluid systems at upper-mantle pressures.

Terms to describe fluid phases We suggest that fluid is used as the overarching term for a physically mobile phase, irrespective of the proportions of salt and volatile components. It can be further specified as a single-phase fluid if emphasis is placed on a phase state away from a limiting two-phase boundary. The term "supercritical" is avoided for crustal fluids because it cannot always be defined unambiguously (see also below). A fluid can be a liquid, if it has a density that is greater than the critical density of the fluid composition in question, or a vapor if its density is lower than its critical density (see Figs. 2a,b for critical isochores in one-component systems). This definition divides—arbitrarily but unambiguously—the physically continuous single-phase stability field into two regions in pressure-temperature space. The separating surface is not a phase boundary but comprises the locus of all critical isochores, which are lines of constant fluid density emerging from all points along the critical curve of the system. Single-phase fluids of near-critical density are loosely but sometimes conveniently described as intermediate-density fluids. This definition of liquid, intermediate-density and vapor is consistent with the common description of isochoric homogenization of fluid inclusions, by bubble-point ("homogenization into the liquid"), near-critical ("meniscus fading") and dewpoint transition ("homogenization to vapor"), respectively (Roedder 1984). Hypersaline liquid (loosely called "brine") is commonly used for a dense water-bearing liquid whose bulk salinity is high enough to saturate a salt crystal when cooled isochorically to room temperature (> 26 wt% salt in the model system H 2 0-NaCl). The term steam should only be used for H 2 0 vapor and thus contains chemical information. Gaseous and volatile, although often used as nouns, are adjectives and should be exclusively used as such, to describe fluid components or species.

Introduction

to Fluid-Fluid

Interactions

in the

Lithosphere

9

Terms describing fluid processes involving one or two phases We use the term fluid mixing for any process of physical confluence and equilibration of two fluids that were initially out of equilibrium with each other, even if their interaction leads to phase separation into two coexisting fluids of different composition. For example, mixing between a homogeneous hypersaline H 2 0-NaCl liquid and a homogeneous H 2 0 - C 0 2 fluid may lead to phase separation into an aqueous liquid of intermediate salinity containing minor C0 2 , plus a stably coexisting vapor phase enriched in C0 2 (see Fig. 5). Phase separation is used interchangeably with fluid un-mixing, as the overarching term of a single homogeneous fluid phase splitting into two coexisting fluid phases. Phase separation can either occur by boiling, if vapor bubbles nucleate from the liquid, or by condensation, which implies the formation of liquid droplets from the vapor. The distinction thus implies a P-T path to a point on the two-phase coexistence surface. In a one-component system, boiling implies crossing the liquid-vapor equilibrium towards higher temperature and/or lower pressure, whereas condensation implies the crossing of the liquid-vapor equilibrium towards lower temperature and/or higher pressure (Fig. 4a). In two- or multicomponent systems, where the separating phases have different compositions, boiling occurs when the P-T evolution of an initially homogeneous fluid intersects the limiting two-phase surface on the liquid side of the critical curve of the system, whereas condensation occurs upon intersection of the twophase curve on the vapor side (Fig. 4b). Irrespective of composition, boiling and condensation imply changes in phase state and capture an important distinction between two types of phase separation. In contrast to these terms for phase separation, the words expansion and contraction are used exclusively for homogeneous changes in density of a single fluid phase of fixed composition (Figs. 4a,b). Fluid phase segregation refers to physical separation of previously coexisting fluids. This may occur due to different buoyancy, viscosity, and/or wetting behavior of the two fluids. This terminology implies that any phase-separated fluid system that does not undergo phase segregation will not change its bulk composition; under new pressuretemperature conditions it may re-homogenize again to the initial single-phase fluid.

a)

critical isochore

liquid

03

CL

22.1-

0.00061 -

CP

expansion / boiling a A solid ("ice")

boiling condensation

[MPa]

/

0)

qI

b)

' / '

200

P contraction

condensation vapor (steam) 800

374 0.01 Temperature [°C]

ßnfV T- 600 .„„• 'è/n^ 4 0 0

Figure 4. Schematic drawings showing the terminology for fluid phases and processes in (a) one-component systems as exemplified by the H 2 0 system and (b) two-component systems as exemplified by the H 2 0 NaCl system; (b) based on data by Driesner and Heinrich (2007).

10

Liebscher &

Heinrich

A note on the term "supercritical" The term "supercritical" is widely used in the literature on fluid-fluid equilibria. However, it is not applied consistently but used to describe rather different phenomena within the different systems. In some cases, its use is misleading or even meaningless. Except for specific cases outlined below, this term therefore should be avoided. In one-component systems, the term "supercritical" refers to P-T conditions above the critical point of the system, i.e., P>PC and T>TC (see Figs. 2a,b). Because in these systems P and T of the critical point are uniquely defined, the "supercritical" P-T field is likewise uniquely defined; even here, some authors use the term "supercritical" for high-temperature fluids at any pressure, because the fluid is single phase and changes in P or T do not induce phase separation. In two- or multi-component systems, critical behavior occurs along critical curves and is no longer uniquely defined in terms of P and T. "Supercritical," as implying P > Pc and T > Tc, therefore becomes meaningless. This holds all the more if one considers that in twoor higher component systems the vapor-liquid two-phase field may open with increasing temperature as, for example, in the H 2 0-NaCl system. In these systems, raising T > Tc (at a given pressure) implies fluid phase separation instead of homogenization, contrary to what is intended by the term "supercritical." This picture may change if one uses "supercritical" with respect to critical endpoints in melt-fluid systems. For a given system, such a critical endpoint, i.e., where P and T of the critical curve and P and T of the wet solidus are identical and the wet solidus vanishes, is again uniquely defined with respect to P and T and so is the "supercritical" field. However, even in these cases, it will depend on the APIAT slope of the critical curve, whether T > rcritic!ll elKjpomt implies single phase fluid (as intended; negative API AT slope) or fluid phase separation (positive APIAT slope). For a more detailed and thorough discussion of critical endpoints and associated phenomena the reader is referred to Hack et al. (2007). A completely different use of "supercritical" is found in the literature on oceanic hydrothermal systems (see also Foustoukos and Seyfried 2007). In these systems, the almost exclusive fluid source is seawater with a fixed salinity of ~ 3.2 wt% NaCl. P-T conditions for onset of fluid phase separation are therefore approximated by the liquid-vapor two-phase boundary of the 3.2 wt% NaCl isosalinity P-T section of the H 2 0-NaCl system. This P-T section intersects the critical curve of the H 2 0-NaCl system at ~ 30 MPa/404 °C, which is the critical point of seawater (Bischoff and Rosenbauer 1984). The terms "subcritical" and "supercritical" fluid phase separation then refer to this critical point of seawater and indicate fluid phase separation at P-T conditions below and above ~ 30 MPa/404 °C, respectively. At "subcritical" conditions, seawater has a higher salinity than the conjugate fluid, intersects the limiting liquid-vapor two-phase surface on the liquid side of the critical curve and the system starts to boil. At "supercritical" conditions, seawater has a lower salinity than the conjugate fluid, intersects the limiting liquid-vapor two-phase surface on the vapor side of the critical curve and the system starts to condense. The term "supercritical," as used in the literature of oceanic hydrothermal systems, is far from indicating a homogeneous single phase fluid state, but on the contrary indicates fluid-phase separation by condensation in the more general terminology proposed above. To avoid misunderstandings and for the comfort of nonspecialists, we strongly recommend to avoid the inherently contradictory terms "subcritical phase separation" and "supercritical phase separation" in oceanic hydrothermal systems, but to use the terminology suggested above.

COMPOSITION AND PHASE STATE OF COMMON CRUSTAL FLUIDS Crustal fluids are generally water-rich, but they are rarely pure H 2 0 and usually contain significant quantities of dissolved components. Dissolved salts such as NaCl, KC1, and CaCl 2 ,

Introduction

to Fluid-Fluid

Interactions

in the

Lithosphere

11

and polar gas components including C0 2 , CH 4 and different nitrogen and sulfur species are the most important, which may even exceed the concentration of water in some crustal fluids. The principal compositional variations of water-bearing crustal fluids are broadly related to different geological environments outlined above (see Fig. 1). Consequences for fluid-fluid equilibria can be rationalized with respect to the simplified model system H 2 0 - N a C l - C 0 2 . This system approximates the properties of the more complex fluids, if NaCl is taken as representative for different salts (NaCl equivalent, NaCl eq ), and C 0 2 is considered to represent other non-polar gas species. As a first albeit simplified approximation, temperature and salinity may be used as physical and compositional discriminants between fluids from basinal, oceanic, metamorphic, and magmatic systems (Kesler 2005; his Fig. 4). The salinity of basinal fluids is extremely variable over approximately five orders of magnitude, between a few ppm in shallow meteoric regimes and ~60 wt% NaCl eq in fluids from evaporite-rich basins (Kharaka and Hanor 2003). The temperature of basinal fluids rarely exceeds 200 °C. Fluids from oceanic systems display a more restricted salinity range (~0.18 to 7.3 wt% NaCl eq ; German and Von Damm 2003; Foustoukos and Seyfried 2007) but typically reach higher temperatures up to ~400 °C. These temperatures refer to those measured in vent fluids, but oceanic system fluids may be considerably hotter in deeper parts so that fluid-fluid equilibria in these systems are not restricted to T < 400 °C. Metamorphic fluids generally display only moderate salinities (< ~5 wt% NaCl eq ); higher salinities may be encountered in evaporitic metasediments while extreme levels may be reached in some granulites (Crawford and Hollister 1986; Markl et al. 1998; W. Heinrich 2007). The temperature range of metamorphic fluids in mesothermal ore deposits as given by Kesler (2005; his Fig. 4) is ~200 to 450 °C, but metamorphic fluids in general will cover the whole T range of the metamorphic realm, i.e., up to > 700 °C in the granulite facies. Magmatic fluids display the largest range in salinity, up to 80 wt% NaCl eq , and typically have temperatures > 400 °C (Heinrich 2007a). This simplified temperature - salinity classification dramatically changes if C 0 2 or additional polar gas components in the fluids are considered (Fig. 5). Oceanic fluids are restricted to H 2 0-NaCl rich compositions and generally have low C 0 2 contents (< 0.9 wt%, German and Von Damm 2003); here, C 0 2 has no significant influence on fluid phase relations. Fluids from basinal systems may contain higher C 0 2 concentrations than those from oceanic systems. C 0 2 in sedimentary basins, and CH 4 to even greater extent, influence fluid stability relations and cause fluid phase separation into aqueous liquid and a gas phase. Contrary to fluids from oceanic and basinal systems, fluids from magmatic and metamorphic systems are truly ternary mixtures, and may contain considerable amounts of C 0 2 as well as a major salinity component. The combined effects of salt and C0 2 , which are mutually almost immiscible (Fig. 5), extends the possibility of two-phase fluid behavior to very hot magmatic, as well as very deep lower-crustal metamorphic environments. In summary, Figure 5 shows the typical compositional ranges of major crustal fluid environments, superimposed on the limits of ternary miscibility in the H 2 0-NaCl-C0 2 model system at widely differing geological P-T conditions. This overlay clearly shows that twophase fluid coexistence must be widespread throughout the earths crust — even without considering hydrous silicate melts or liquid hydrocarbons, which may add a third fluid phase in magmatic or basin settings, respectively. This summary implies that fluid mixing and unmixing are expected to be common geological processes, wherever compositionally diverse crustal fluids flow through rocks along typical gradients in temperature and pressure.

12

Liebscher

&

Heinrich b)

low P/medium T

low P/high T

NaCI halite

NaCI halite

magmatic

magmatic

baslnal

metamorphic

metamorphic

medium to high P/medium T

medium to high P/high T NaCI halite

NaCI halite

magmatic

metamorphic

magmatic

H2O

metamorphic

Figure 5. Principal phase relations in the ternary system H 2 0 - C 0 2 - N a C l at different c r u s t a l P - r conditions: a) and b) at pressure below and c) and d) at pressure above the critical curve of the sub-system H 2 0 - N a C l ; a) and c) at temperature below and b) and d) at temperature above the melting curve of halite. Superimposed are schematic fields of fluid composition for basinal, oceanic, metamorphic, and magmatic fluids as given by Kesler (2005); ternaries redrawn and modified f r o m W. Heinrich (2007).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This introduction benefited from careful reading by K. Driippel and G. Franz. Final editorial handling by J. Rosso is gratefully acknowledged.

REFERENCES Ague JJ (2003) Fluid flow in the deep crust. Treatise G e o c h e m 3:195-228 Arnorsson S, Stefänsson A, Bjarnason J Ö (2007) Fluid-fluid interactions in geothermal systems. Rev Mineral G e o c h e m 65:259-312 Bischoff JL, Rosenbauer RJ (1984) The critical point and two-phase boundary of seawater, 200-500°C. Earth Planet Sei Lett 68:172-180 Bodnar RJB (2005) Fluids in planetary systems. Elements 1:9-12 Brimhall GH, Crerar D A (1987) Ore fluids: Magmatic to supergene. Rev Mineral 17:235-321

Introduction to Fluid-Fluid Interactions in the Lithosphere

13

Carroll MR, Holloway J R (1994) Volatiles in Magmas. Rev Mineral Vol. 30, Mineralogical Society of America Crawford ML, Hollister LS (1986) Metamorphic fluids, the evidence from fluid inclusions. In: Fluid-rock interactions during metamorphism. Walther JV, Wood B J (eds) Springer, p 1-35 De Vivo B, Lima A, Webster JD (2005) Volatiles in magmatic-volcanic systems. Elements 1:19-24 Driesner T, Geiger S (2007) Numerical simulation of multiphase fluid flow in hydrothermal systems. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:187-212 Driesner T, Heinrich CA (2007) The System H 2 0-NaCl. I. Correlation formulae for phase relations in pressuretemperature-composition space from 0 to 1000°C, 0 to 5000 bar, and 0 to 1 X NaC1 . Geochim Cosmochim Acta (accepted) Eugster HP, Baumgartner L (1987) Mineral solubilities and speciation in supercritical metamorphic fluids. Rev Mineral 17:367-403 Ferry JM, Baumgartner L (1987) Thermodynamic models of molecular fluids at the elevated pressures and temperatures of crustal metamorphism. Rev Mineral 17:323-365 Foustoukos DI, Seyfried Jr. WE (2007) Fluid phase separation processes in submarine hydrothermal systems. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:213-239 Frape SK, Blyth A, Blomqvist R, McNutt RH, Gascoyne M (2003) Deep fluids in the continents: II. Crystalline rocks. Treatise Geochem 5:541-580 German CR, Von Damm KL (2003) Hydrothermal processes. Treatise Geochem 6:181-222 Gottschalk M (2007) Equations of state for complex fluids. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:49-97 Green II HW, Jung H (2005) Fluids, faulting, and flow. Elements 1:31-37 Hack AC, Thompson AB, Aerts M (2007) Phase relations involving hydrous silicate melts, aqueous fluids, and minerals. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:129-185 Heinrich CA (2005) The physical and chemical evolution of low to medium-salinity magmatic fluids at the porphyry to epithermal transition: a thermodynamic study. Mineral Deposita 39:864-889 Heinrich CA (2007a) Fluid - fluid interactions in magmatic-hydrothermal ore formation. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:363-387 Heinrich W (2007b) Fluid immiscibility in metamorphic rocks. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:389-430 Jamtveit B, Yardley BWD (1997) Fluid Flow and Transport in Rocks: Mechanisms and Effects. Chapman & Hall Kesler SE (2005) Ore-forming fluids. Elements 1:13-18 Kharaka YK, Hanor JS (2003) Deep fluids in the continents: I. Sedimentary basins. Treatise Geochem 5:499540 Liebscher A (2007) Experimental studies in model fluid systems. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:15-47 Markl G, Ferry J, Bucher K (1998) Formation of saline brines and salt in the lower crust by hydration reactions in partially retrogressed granulites from the Lofoten Islands, Norway. Am J Sei 298:705-757 Pedersen KS, Christensen P (2007) Fluids in Hydrocarbon Basins. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:241-258 Roedder E (1984) Fluid Inclusions. Rev Mineral Vol. 12, Mineralogical Society of America Samson I, Anderson A, Marshall D (2003) Fluid Inclusions - Analysis and Interpretation. Mineral Assoc Can Short Course 32 Schmidt MW, Poli S (2003) Generation of mobile components during subduction of oceanic crust. Treatise Geochem 3:567-591 Shmulovich KI, Yardley BWD, Gonchar GG (1995) Fluids in the Crust. Chapman & Hall Skippen G (1988) Phase relations in model fluid systems. Rendiconti Soc Ital Mineral Petrol 43:7-14 Thompson AB, Aerts M, Hack AC (2007) Liquid immiscibility in silicate melts and related systems. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:99-127 Walther JV, Wood B J (1986) Fluid -Rock Interactions During Metamorphism. Springer Webster J, Mandeville C (2007) Fluid immiscibility in volcanic environments. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:313362 Williams-Jones AE, Heinrich CA (2005) Vapor transport of metals and the formation of magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits. 100th Anniversary special paper, Econ Geol 100:1287-1312

2

Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry Vol. 65, pp. 15-47, 2007 Copyright © Mineralogical Society of America

Experimental Studies in Model Fluid Systems Axel Liebscher Institute for Applied Geosciences Technical University of Berlin D-13355 Berlin, Germany

Department 4, Chemistry of the Earth GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam Telegrafenberg D-14473 Potsdam, Germany

[email protected]

INTRODUCTION Numerous observations provide strong evidence that fluid-fluid coexistence is a widespread phenomenon in many geological processes: i) Oceanic hydrothermal fluids display a wide range in salinity, which clearly indicates fluid phase separation of the circulating seawater (see Foustoukos and Seyfried 2007a); ii) Selective enrichment of certain elements and coeval entrapped inclusions of different, co-existing fluids highlight the role immiscible fluids play in ore formation (see Heinrich 2007a); iii) Trace element and stable isotope characteristic as well as equilibrium mineral assemblages in contact aureoles prove immiscible fluids to be a ubiquitous feature in most contact metamorphism (see Heinrich 2007b); iv) Small scale fluid heterogeneity in eclogitic rocks indicate fluid immiscibility to occur in metamorphic rocks up to high or even ultra-high pressure (see Heinrich 2007b). Unfortunately, fluids are principally non-quenchable phases and direct quantitative information on fluid properties at P and T is in most cases not available. Experimental studies are thus central in studying geologic fluids in general and co-existing fluids in particular. They are still the primary source of quantitative information on physicochemical properties of co-existing crustal fluids: they allow, e.g., determine i) fluid phase relations as function of P, T, and x; ii) physical fluid properties like density and viscosity, and iii) trace element and isotope fractionation between co-existing fluids but also between co-existing fluids and solids. The experimental data can then be used as input in forward modeling approaches, the results and/or predictions of which may then be tested in natural systems (see Driesner and Geiger 2007). Experimental data on co-existing fluids in systems of geological relevance already date back to the first half of last century (e.g., Keevil 1942). Since the 1960ies, numerous systematic experimental studies on fluid-fluid phase relations at crustal P and T conditions were performed (e.g., Sourirajan and Kennedy 1962; Ellis and Golding 1963; Todheide and Franck 1963; Takenouchi and Kennedy 1964, 1965; Welsch 1973; Bischoff and Rosenbauer 1984, 1988; Bodnar et al. 1985; Japas and Franck 1985; Krader 1985; Rosenbauer and Bischoff 1987; Zhang and Frantz 1989; Hovey et al. 1990; Kotel'nikov and Kotel'nikova 1991; Shmulovich and Plyasunova 1993; Shmulovich et al. 1995; Lamb et al. 1996, 2002; Schmidt and Bodnar 2000). Several experimental studies have addressed trace element and stable isotope fractionation between co-existing fluids (e.g., Truesdell 1974; Bischoff and Rosenbauer 1987; Berndt and Seyfried 1990,1997; Horita et al. 1995; Shmulovich et al. 1999, 2002; Pokrovski et al. 2002, 2005; Liebscher et al. 2005, 2006a,b, 2007). Although a lot of experimental studies at different P-T conditions, in different model fluid systems, and with different experimental techniques have been performed to address the different geological questions pertinent to fluid-fluid research, this review will show that the experimental data base is still insufficient to fully address the complexity of natural co-existing fluids. Compared to the rock-forming minerals, many pieces of the fluid-fluid puzzle are still lacking. 1529-6466/07/0065-0002$05.00

DOI: 10.2138/rmg.2007.65.2

16

Liebscher

After a short description of how the experimental data are presented, this review very briefly describes the principal experimental techniques applied to fluid-fluid research. Then the experimental results on the fundamental fluid-fluid phase relations in binary and ternary subsystems of the general H 2 0-C02-CH 4 -N2-HCl-sulfur species-alkaline/earth alkaline salts-alkaline/earth alkaline hydroxides model system are reviewed. This general system is sufficient to describe most crustal fluids except hydrocarbons and silicate melts/silicate-rich high-pressure fluids. Describing the experimental studies on hydrocarbon systems and silicate melt/silicate-rich high-pressure fluids systems is beyond the scope of this review. For a review on fluid-fluid equilibria in these systems, the reader is referred to Hack et al. (2007), Pedersen and Christensen (2007), Thompson et al. (2007), and Webster and Mandeville (2007). Based on the information about fluid-fluid phase relations in the binary and ternary model systems, the available experimental data on trace element and stable isotope fractionation between co-existing fluids are reviewed. Finally, experimental data on fluid-mineral and fluid-rock interactions under two-fluid phase conditions are briefly addressed and a short outlook on potential future research topics is given.

DATA COMPILATION AND PRESENTATION No uniform usage of units exists in the literature for the presentation of P-V-T-x data in model fluid systems. Pressure is presented in the different studies as (k)bar, (M)Pa, or atm and temperature as K or °C. These units are easily converted into each other and all pressure and temperature data are re-calculated and presented as MPa and °C throughout this review. Presentation of compositional data is even more diverse in the different studies. Commonly used units are wt%, mol%, mole fraction, (m)mol/kg, and (m)mol/l. Different units are not only used in different studies but may also be mixed in individual studies and even in individual diagrams: e.g., some studies use "wt% relative to H 2 0 " to express salt concentrations in ternary diagrams and "wt% relative to H 2 0 + salt" or mole fraction to express corresponding C 0 2 concentrations. In addition, solute concentrations in co-existing fluids are considerably high at P-T conditions addressed by this review and any weight-based concentration value largely depends on the solutes molar weight: e.g., an H 2 0-salt solution with «sai/(«H2o + «salt) = 0.1 corresponds to 26.5 wt% NaCl but 50.3 wt% CaCl 2 . Thus, any weight-based concentration values prohibit direct comparison between results obtained in the different model fluid systems. To allow for direct comparison between the different studies and between different systems, all compositional data for the presentation of P-V-T-x relations are therefore re-calculated throughout this review on a mole fraction basis with x componmt A = wcomponmt A ^n s y s i c m . The reader should be aware that this re-calculation leads to some changes in the shape of the here presented phase topologies when compared with the original references. One of the key parameters in binary H 2 0-salt systems is the location of the critical curve, as this defines the upper pressure limit for fluid phase separation at any given temperature (see below). However, not all studies on P-V-T-x relations in binary H 2 0-salt systems present data for the location of the critical curve. In binary H 2 0-salt systems at isothermal conditions, an albeit only purely empirically derived equation relates critical pressure Pc, sampling pressure P, and composition xsaltV!lP°r and xsaltu'!md of co-existing vapor and liquid: * M / , u i d - *SaitV!lpor = const. (Pc - Pf with x sdt = «sai/(«sait + «H 2 O) and b = 0.5 (Pitzer et al. 1987; Bischoff and Rosenbauer 1988; see also discussion between Harvey and Levelt Sengers 1989 and Pitzer and Tanger 1989). Thus, plotting the squared mole fraction difference (xsaltu'!md -xsaltV!lP°r)2 of co-existing vapor and liquid versus sampling pressure P yields the critical pressure Pc for (xsaltli'!md - xsaltV!lP°r)2 = 0. According to the law of rectilinear diameters, the average mole fractions (xsaitu'!md + xsaitV!lP°r)/2 of co-existing vapor and liquid should define a linear relationship with sampling pressure, which intersects

Expérimental

Studies

in Model Fluid

Systems

17

the critical pressure Pc at the critical composition xc (Kay and Rambosek 1953; Rowlinson and Swinton 1982; Dubois et al. 1994). For those studies on P-V-T-x relations in binary H 2 0-salt systems that lack data for the critical curve, critical pressure Pc and critical composition xc for the respective isotherms were calculated for this review according to the above mentioned relation between (xsaltuiuid - x s a l t V ! 1 P ° r ) 2 , (xsaltUquid + Xs^oi)I2, P, Pc, and xc. But the reader has to be aware that this relation is only empirical without theoretical foundation and that especially b = 0.5 may not apply to all systems. However, depending on amount and quality of the underlying •*S!iitliquld> xsaitV!lp°r> a n d P data, uncertainties of the derived Pc and xc are probably below ±0.1 MPa for Pc and ± 0.005 for xc (Bischoff and Rosenbauer 1988; Dubois et al. 1994). Trace element and stable isotope fractionation between co-existing fluids depends on a complex interplay between pressure, temperature, composition, and physicochemical properties like density and pH of the co-existing fluids. Some of these factors may simultaneously influence trace element and stable isotope fractionation in opposite directions: e.g., increasing temperature principally results in less fractionation but concomitantly implies (at isobaric conditions in H 2 0-salt systems) increasing opening of the liquid-vapor two-phase field and therefore increasing compositional and density differences between the co-existing fluids, which favors higher fractionation (e.g., Shmulovich et al. 2002). Unfortunately, no generally applicable theory for trace element and stable isotope fractionation between coexisting fluids is yet available. One of the prime factors that govern trace element fractionation between co-existing fluids is the density difference (e.g., Pokrovski et al. 2005). However, systematic density data as function of pressure and temperature are only available for the H 2 0NaCl system (Khaibullin and Borisov 1966; Urusova 1975; Bischoff and Rosenbauer 1988; Bischoff 1991). Trace element fractionation data in this system are therefore presented in this review as function of the density difference between co-existing fluids. In case the original reference lack density data, the densities of co-existing fluids were calculated based on given P-T-x data and the density data of Bischoff (1991). All other trace element and stable isotope fractionation data are presented as function of Pc - P, i.e., pressure distance to the critical curve for any particular isotherm. This procedure is at variance with data presentation in some of the original references (e.g., 1 8 0/ 1 6 0 and D/H stable isotope fractionation by Shmulovich et al. 1999; see below) and is confronted with the problem that in some systems Pc is not that well constrained, resulting in comparable large uncertainty of Pc - P. However, it allows for direct comparison of results obtained at different P-T conditions and in different systems and by that to draw some general conclusions.

EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO FLUID-FLUID STUDIES Several different experimental techniques have been applied to studies on co-existing fluids. This is due to i) the diverse questions in fluid-fluid studies (e.g., P-T-x relations, densities of co-existing fluids, vapor-liquid fractionation of trace elements and stable isotopes, mineral solubility under two-phase fluid conditions, speciation of the different fluid components), ii) the diverse chemical systems investigated (e.g., simple binary H 2 0-non polar gas and H 2 0-salt systems, more complicated ternary or even quaternary systems, systems in which physicochemical parameters like pH, f0l, fs, / H2 , / H2S ideally have to be controlled or at least recorded), and iii) the wide range of P and T conditions (e.g., from below the critical point of pure H 2 0 to high temperature of up to 1000 °C and to pressure of up to 500 MPa or even higher). This review will not present and discuss in detail all different techniques used; for more details the reader is referred to the original references given in the respective sections below. Instead, some general aspects are outlined here. Somewhat simplified and generalized speaking, fluids are non-quenchable phases, in contrast to most solid phases and higher viscosity melts. This creates the main and principle

18

Liebscher

problem in experimental studies on fluid-fluid systems. To derive information on the co-existing fluids at P and T, the systems have either to be studied in situ or the co-existing fluid phases have to be physically separated from each other at P and T to be then analyzed separately at ambient conditions. In situ studies have been applied by several workers to study P-V-T-x relations (e.g., Todheide and Franck 1963; Welsch 1973; Blencoe et al. 2001). In these studies, a precisely known amount of fluid is filled into an autoclave of known volume (with V =flT))\ i.e., mbll]k, Vbuifo -Kbuik> a n d Pbuik are w e l l constrained. The system is then heated up and some system parameter is recorded on-line as/(I). At the transition from an immiscible system to a single-phase fluid, 9 palamf;te /9r will change. Because mbll]k, Vbuik, -«bulk, and pbll]k are either constant (OTbuik> -Kbuik) o r w e l l constrained (Vbuik> Pbuik) during the experiment, the phase transition from a multiphase to a single-phase fluid is then precisely defined in terms of P, T, x, and p. Experimental studies, which physically separate the co-existing fluids for later analysis, can be subdivided into those that use synthetic fluid inclusions (SynFlinc) and those that use different types of hydrothermal autoclaves. For SynFlinc studies, fluid and (mostly) quartz crystals are loaded into common capsules and brought to the desired P-T conditions. Here, the quartz crystals trap the co-existing fluids as synthetic fluid inclusions (for a detailed description of this method see Bodnar and Sterner 1987; Sterner and Bodnar 1991). The SynFlincs are then analyzed by classical microthermometric techniques (for an introduction into principles of fluid inclusion research see Roeder 1984) for salinity (e.g., Bodnar et al. 1985; Zhang and Frantz 1989; Dubois et al. 1994) or, only most recently, by Laser AblationInductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) for trace element composition to determine trace element fractionation. While the SynFlinc technique is a very elegant way to sample fluids at the P-T conditions of interest without any change in P and T introduced by the sampling procedure itself, the technique has some shortcomings: i) SynFlincs may not sample pure endmember fluids but some mixture of the co-existing fluids (see, e.g., data by Dubois et al. (1994) for the H 2 0-LiCl system presented below); ii) SynFlincs may change during the cooling path of the experimental samples; iii) Melting temperature and homogenization temperature may be difficult determined in low-density vapor inclusions; iv) Determination of salinity depends on the knowledge of the ambient pressure phase relations of the system of interest. However, compared to the autoclave techniques, the SynFlinc technique is much less restricted in accessible P-T-x conditions. Studies based on autoclave techniques are performed with externally heated autoclaves that allow for recovering fluid samples at P and T through some kind of sampling line (see Seyfried et al. 1987). Autoclaves and sampling line(s) are designed such that they allow for stratification of the lower-density fluid from the higher-density fluid and consequently sampling of pure endmember fluids. This is achieved via sampling in an up-right position of the (generally rotatable) autoclave with the lower-density fluid at the top and the higher-density fluid at the bottom (this sampling technique therefore also provide information on the relative densities of co-existing fluids; see below for H 2 0 - C 0 2 example by Takenouchi and Kennedy 1964). The great advantage of the autoclave technique is that it allows for analyzing the recovered fluid samples for major and trace element composition by standard techniques like ion chromatography, ICP-MS, and ICP-OES (optical emission spectrometry) and for isotopic composition by mass spectrometry. However, like the SynFlinc technique, the autoclave technique has some shortcomings: i) Extraction of a fluid sample decrease the bulk density of the system and by that the pressure. Fluid-fluid equilibria are very pressure sensitive, especially near critical conditions, and the sampling procedure itself therefore shifts the equilibrium composition of the co-existing fluids. Two different approaches are used to overcome this problem: flexible reaction cells, which allow for external pressure control and large-volume autoclaves, for which the sampling volume is very small compared to the autoclave volume and pressure drop during sampling is consequently very small; ii) Fluid samples are immediately quenched from run to ambient P-T conditions during sampling. This quenching may result in precipitation of

Expérimental

Studies

in Model Fluid

Systems

19

some solute load within the sampling line(s); iii) To avoid precipitation of the major salt(s) during sampling, experiments are normally only preformed up to xsaltu'!md (at run conditions) < (at ambient conditions); iv) P-T conditions for use of most of the autoclaves are restricted to medium T (< 700 °C) and P (< 150 MPa). P-V-T-x RELATIONS IN BINARY MODEL FLUID SYSTEMS Based on the second component (e.g., non polar gases, electrolytes) in addition to H 2 0, binary model fluid systems that are addressed in this review may be chemically grouped and subdivided into i) H 2 0-non polar gas systems, ii) H 2 0-salt systems, and iii) additional and geologically less important systems. Although binary fluid systems in general are a simplified representation of natural crustal fluids (oceanic hydrothermal fluids may be an exception, for which the binary H 2 0-NaCl systems is a reasonable and probably valid approximation; see Foustoukos and Seyfried 2007a), experimental studies in these systems provide the necessary robust framework for the more realistic ternary, quaternary or even higher component systems, for which the binary systems form the boundary conditions. H 2 0-non polar gas systems These systems include the geological relevant systems H 2 0 - C 0 2 (Fig. la), H 2 0-CH 4 (Fig. lb), and H 2 0-N 2 (Fig. lc), of which the H 2 0 - C 0 2 system has attracted the most attention. Fluid-fluid equilibria in the system H 2 0 - C 0 2 has been studied, among others, by Todheide and Franck (1963), Takenouchi and Kennedy (1964), Sterner and Bodnar (1991), Seitz and Blencoe (1997), and Blencoe et al. (2001). Welsch (1973) and Shmonov et al. (1993) studied the system H 2 0-CH 4 , and Japas and Franck (1985) the system H 2 0-N 2 . Experimental data for the system H 2 0-Xe are given in Welsch (1973) and Franck et al. (1974). Despite some differences in actual P-T-x conditions, the principal phase relations in the three systems H 2 0C0 2 , H 2 0-CH 4 , and H 2 0-N 2 resemble each other: The available data indicate that immiscibility is generally restricted to temperatures below about 400 °C. Under most crustal P-T conditions these systems are therefore characterized by a homogeneous single-phase fluid. Nevertheless, fluid immiscibility at T < 400 °C in these systems can be of economic interest. Their critical curves (Fig. Id) consistently exhibit temperature minima. These minima occur at 60 to 70 MPa/ ~ 365 °C in the H 2 0-N 2 system (Japas and Franck 1985), ~ 100 MPa/353 °C in the H 2 0-CH 4 system (Welsch 1973), and 155 to 190MPa/~265 °C in the H 2 0 - C 0 2 system (Takenouchi and Kennedy 1964). With increasing pressure, the critical curves then shift to slightly higher temperature; however, the data indicate that up to 300 MPa critical temperatures will not exceed ~ 275 °C in the H 2 0 - C 0 2 system, ~ 380 °C in the H 2 0-CH 4 system, and ~ 390 °C in the H 2 0-N 2 system. T-x sections at 100 and 200 MPa indicate that in this P-range pressure has only a negligible effect on the location of the critical curves. They also show that the vaporliquid two-phase fields in H 2 0-non polar gas systems close with increasing temperature but widen with increasing pressure (Fig. le). Pressure and temperature therefore have the opposite effect on extend of immiscibility in H 2 0-non polar gas systems than in H 2 0-salt systems where the vapor-liquid two-phase fields widen with increasing temperature but close with increasing pressure (see below). Takenouchi and Kennedy (1964) studied the H 2 0 - C 0 2 system by means of the autoclave technique. Their data therefore provide information on the relative densities of the co-existing H 2 0- respectively C0 2 -rich fluids (Fig. If). Up to about 210 MPa at 264 °C and 230 MPa at 260 °C, the C0 2 -rich fluid was sampled from the upper part of the autoclave indicating lower relative density of this fluid up to these conditions. Contrary, at higher pressure conditions, the H 2 0-rich fluid was sampled from the upper part of the autoclave, suggesting a density inversion between H 2 0- and C0 2 -rich fluids in this P-T range (Takenouchi and Kennedy 1964). The indicated P-T range of the density inversion in the H 2 0 - C 0 2 system agrees fairly

20

Liebscher

H 2 O-CH 4

H20-Xe

H20-N2

.p.

H20

"J JUU JJV Temperature [°C] E

400

F

350

H20-C02

300 To

'300-

CL

1 , 250 a) jg 200 £

: 250 -

150 200 0.4

0.6

Xco 2 , CH4, N2

100

0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 x co2

F i g u r e 1. Fluid phase relations in the H 2 0 - n o n polar gas systems H 2 0 - C 0 2 , H 2 0 - C H 4 , and H 2 0 - N 2 . (a), (b), and (c) Pressure-composition relations in the above systems; thin lines are isotherms with temperature in °C given by numbers; thick lines represent the critical curves, (d) Pressure-temperature relations of the critical curves in the above systems, (e) Isobaric representation of the vapor-liquid two-phase fields at 100 and 200 MPa, open circles represent the respective critical points, (f) Enlargement of (a) showing sampling conditions: open circles represent samples recovered f r o m the top part of the autoclave, filled circles represent samples recovered f r o m the bottom part of the autoclave. The data indicate a density inversion in the system H 2 0 - C 0 2 , see text for further details, [data for H 2 0 - C 0 2 f r o m Takenouchi and Kennedy 1964, open circles in (a) f r o m Blencoe et al. 2001; for H 2 0 - C H 4 f r o m Welsch 1973; for H 2 0 - N 2 f r o m Japas and Franck 1985]

Expérimental

Studies

in Model Fluid

Systems

21

well with those P-T conditions, at which the pure end member systems H 2 0 and C 0 2 display a density inversion (Takenouchi and Kennedy 1964). H 2 0-salt systems Besides H 2 0-C0 2 , H 2 0-salt systems are the geologically most important binary systems, as most fluids at least contain some amount of chlorine and therefore some amount of salt. Contrary to H 2 0-non polar gas systems, which are (in general) completely miscible at temperature above about 400 °C, H 2 0-salt systems may show fluid immiscibility up to > 250 MPa at 800 °C (see below). This P-T range includes pressure-temperature conditions as they occur in geothermal systems (see Arnorsson and Stefansson 2007), oceanic hydrothermal systems (see Foustoukos and Seyfried 2007a), magmatic to hydrothermal ore deposits (see Heinrich 2007a), volcanic and sub volcanic hydrothermal systems (see Webster and Mandeville 2007), and contact metamorphism (see Heinrich 2007b). Experimental studies in H 2 0-salt systems are therefore directly relevant to important geologic processes, although some of the above mentioned systems are more adequately described by ternary or quaternary systems (see below). Sodium chloride NaCl, CaCl2, and KC1 are the most abundant and important salts in crustal fluids. The concentration of other salts like LiCl, CsCl, SrCl2, or MgCl 2 in crustal fluids is normally at the minor or even trace element level and these salts have therefore only negligible effects on the fluid phase relations of the respective system. Experimental studies on these H 2 0-salt systems nevertheless provide important information on general systematics in H 2 0-salt systems. These studies are therefore also reviewed here. H20-NaCl. H 2 0-NaCl is the most important binary H 2 0-salt system and by far the most experimental studies on fluid-fluid equilibria have focused on this system. This system is therefore used here to illustrate principal features of H 2 0-salt systems and its phase topology is summarized in Figure 2 together with results of some of the fundamental experimental studies. Early studies include Schroer (1927), Olander and Liander (1950), Khaibullin and Borisov (1966) and Marshall and Jones (1974). Keevil (1942) studied the vapor pressure of H 2 0-NaCl solutions at 183 to 646 °C and determined the vapor + liquid + solid three phase curve, while Urusova and Ravich (1971) studied the vapor pressure of H 2 0-NaCl solutions at 350 and 400 °C up to salt saturation. Sourirajan and Kennedy (1962) presented a systematic study on the vapor-liquid two-phase surface at 350 to 700 °C/11.4 to 124 MPa. First density data along the vapor-liquid two-phase surface were presented by Khaibullin and Borisov (1966) and Urusova (1975). Bischoff and Rosenbauer (1984) studied the vapor-liquid phase relations between 200 and 500 °C for a fluid with seawater-like composition of 3.2 wt% NaCl (i.e., *Naci = 0.01). Bodnar et al. (1985) extended the experimental data set to 1000 °C and 130 MPa and studied in detail the 100 MPa isobar; their liquid data were then re-calculated and slightly modified by Chou (1985). Chou also calculated the densities of co-existing vapor and liquid along the three phase curve based on the P-T data by Keevil (1942). Bischoff et al. (1986) studied vapor-liquid relations near the critical temperature of H 2 0 and the vapor + liquid + solid three phase curve from 300 to 500 °C. Rosenbauer and Bischoff (1987) and Bischoff and Rosenbauer (1988) presented detailed studies of the 380, 400, 405, 415, 450, 475, and 500 °C isotherms with special emphasis given to the determination of the critical pressure and critical composition. Combining and summarizing all available experimental data, Bischoff and Pitzer (1989) presented a consistent description of the P-T-x vapor-liquid two-phase surface from 300 to 500 °C and pressure between the three phase curve and the critical curve. Bischoff (1991) extended this summary by adding also density data for vapor and liquid. Shmulovich et al. (1995) then derived additional data for the 400, 500, 600, 650, and 700 °C isotherm. The most recent representation of the complete phase topology in the H 2 0-NaCl system up to 1000 °C/220 MPa, and x N a a = 0 to 1.0 is given by Driesner and Heinrich (2007), based on a re-evaluation of all available experimental data.

22

Liebscher

1100 _.

critical curve

1000. „

0 1

900 -

800 -| 700 -|

s ! 600 a)

H 500 400 300

o 0.000001

0.0001

0.01 X

NaCI

1

0.00001 0.0001 0.001 X

0.01

NaCI

Figure 2. Fluid phase relations in the H 2 0-NaCl system. ( a) Isothermal pressure-composition and (b) isobaric temperature-composition relations, (c) density relations between vapor and liquid, and (d) three dimensional P-T-x diagram from Driesner and Heinrich (2007). [data sources: K '42: Keevil 1942: S & K '62: Sourirajan and Kennedy 1962: U '75: Urusova 1975: B et al. '85: Bodnar et al. 1985: C '85: Chou 1985: B & P '89: Bischoff and Pitzer 1989: S et al. '95: Shmulovich et al. 1995: D '07: Driesner and Heinrich 2007]

Most experiments on the P-T-x relations in H 2 0-salt systems are performed along individual isotherms, and Figure 2a therefore shows an isothermal representation of the H 2 0 NaCl system based on the data by Keevil (1942), Sourirajan and Kennedy (1962), Bischoff and Pitzer (1989) Shmulovich et al. (1995), and Driesner and Heinrich (2007). At isothermal conditions above the critical point of H 2 0 , the vapor-liquid two-phase field has a parabolaform shape, which has its crest at high pressure and opens towards decreasing pressure. This crest defines the critical point of each respective isotherm, at which any physicochemical difference between vapor and liquid vanishes. The critical curve starts at the critical point of H 2 0 (374 °C/22.1 MPa), connects all the individual critical points, and defines the highest pressure at which for a given temperature fluid immiscibility can occur. At pressure conditions above the critical curve, only a single-phase fluid is stable. Within the range of reasonable crustal P-Tconditions, the critical curve in the H 2 0-NaCl system monotonously extends from the critical point of pure H 2 0 towards higher pressure and higher salinity with increasing temperature. This is a characteristic feature of almost all H 2 0-salt systems (an exception being the system H 2 0-BaCl 2 , which shows discontinuous critical and solubility curves; Valyashko et al. 1987) and unlike to the H 2 0-non polar gas systems presented above. At T < T^pie^a (= 800.7 °C), each isotherm, and therefore also the vapor-liquid two-phase surface, terminates at

Expérimental

Studies

in Model Fluid

Systems

23

the vapor + liquid + solid three phase curve, which is defined by the intersection of the liquid surface with the salt saturation surface. At pressure conditions below the vapor + liquid + solid three phase curve no liquid is stable and vapor co-exists with solid salt. The numerous experimental studies in the H 2 0-NaCl system agree fairly well within their experimental and analytical uncertainties. Only the NaCl concentrations in the vapor at 700 °C as determined by Sourirajan and Kennedy (1962) tend to be slightly higher than indicated by the other studies. The critical curve of the H 2 0-NaCl system is well established and indicates that the critical pressure increases from the critical point of pure H 2 0 at 22.1 MPa/374 °C to 124,6 MPa/ 700 °C (Driesner and Heinrich 2007). Figure 2b shows an isobaric representation of the P-T-x relations in the H 2 0-NaCl system based on data by Sourirajan and Kennedy (1962), Bodnar et al. (1985), Chou (1985), Bischoff and Pitzer (1989), and Driesner and Heinrich (2007). Contrary to isothermal conditions, the vapor-liquid two-phase field at isobaric conditions has its critical point at lowest temperature and opens with increasing temperature. In binary H 2 0-salt systems, low pressure and high temperature therefore favor fluid immiscibility, and isothermal decompression or isobaric heating may lead to fluid phase separation. This behavior of H 2 0-salt systems is at variance with the H 2 0-non polar gas systems and the behavior of solid solution series, in which solvi generally close with increasing temperature but open with increasing pressure. Like xc, the critical density pc increases with increasing temperature and pressure along the critical curve (Fig. 2c; Urusova 1975; Chou 1985; Knight and Bodnar 1989; Bischoff 1991). At 550 °C/76 MPa and xNaC1 = 0.054, the critical density in the H 2 0-NaCl system is already p c = 0.61 g/cm3 compared to p c = 0.322 g/cm 3 in the pure H 2 0 system. This shows that for crustal P-T conditions the vapor in H 2 0-salt systems may be considerably dense with peculiar physicochemical properties that are significantly different from those at low P-T conditions and in the pure H 2 0 system (see Heinrich 2007a for the role of vapor in ore-forming processes). H20-KCI; -CaCl2; -MgCl2; -LiCl; -CsCl. The system H20-KCI (Fig. 3a) has been studied at temperature above the critical point of pure H 2 0 by Hovey et al. (1990) along the 380 and 410 °C isotherms, Dubois et al. (1994) along the 500 and 600 °C isotherms, and Shmulovich et al. (1995) along the 400, 500, 600, 650, and 700 °C isotherms. Keevil (1942) reported vapor pressures of liquids with KC1 concentrations up to salt saturation. The results from the different studies agree well, except for some vapor data at 500 °C by Dubois et al. (1994), and the phase relations in the H 2 0-KC1 system are well established. Critical pressures as determined based on the data by Shmulovich et al. (1995) are 28.2 MPa at 400 °C, 58.8 MPa at 500 °C, 91.2 MPa at 600 °C, 106.6 MPa at 650 °C, and 121.2 MPa at 700 °C. These data fairly well agree with the corresponding critical pressures in the H 2 0-NaCl system and the differences between the H 2 0-KC1 and H 2 0-NaCl systems are only minor, at least in the P-T range studied. In natural samples, the behavior of KC1 bearing fluids may therefore reasonably well be approximated by the P-T-x behavior of the much better studied H 2 0-NaCl system. The system H20-CaCl2 (Fig. 3b) has been studied at temperatures above the critical point of pure H 2 0 by Marshall and Jones (1974) up to 400 °C and 1.8 molal CaCl2, Oakes et al. (1994) up to 550 °C and 3 molal CaCl 2 , Tkachenko and Shmulovich (1992) and Shmulovich et al. (1995) at 400, 500, and 600 °C, and Bischoff et al. (1996) at 380, 400, 430, and 500 °C. The data by Zhang and Frantz (1989) provide additional constraints on compositional limits of the vapor limb at 600 and 700 °C. Vapor pressures of liquids with CaCl 2 concentrations up to salt saturation at 250 to 400 °C are reported by Ketsko et al. (1984). At temperatures below the critical point of pure H 2 0, P-V-T-x data are presented by Zarembo et al. (1980) and Wood et al. (1984) at 150 to 350 °C, Valyashko et al. (1987) at 300 °C and Crovetto et al. (1993) at 350 and 370 °C. The overall vapor-liquid phase topology of the H 2 0-CaCl 2 system is well established, although the data sets by Shmulovich et al. (1995) and Bischoff et al. (1996) show some discrepancies. The data by Shmulovich et al. (1995) indicate a slightly narrower

24

Liebscher

H?0-KCI

H 2 0-CaCI 2

O S et al. '95 « cntical points; S e t a | ,95 rr ni rtiircal r iin/p* c curve

„

cP

A D et al. '94 • H '90 — l+v+s; K '42

0.0001

0.00001 0.0001 0.001

0.01

XcaCI2

H 2 0-LiCI

H 2 0-MgCI 2 120 100

1 o Set al. '95

critical curve

A critical points; . S et al. '95 — criticai curve; —

^

L+V+S; U&V83,'84 t

' 80

J

! 60 !

\ \

J/

/w *1

f_400

\

*"c.p. H 2 0 i ,+ v+ s

0 0.0001

0.001

0.01 X

80

\

/

40

20

100 -,

0.1

\\ \

A

D et al. '94

i

Let al. '07

-

lo | E I w E Ì

60 -| 40

-| c.p. H 2 Q ^

± . è r ~

20 -I

^

0.00001 0.0001 0.001 X

MgCI2

0.01

0.1

LiCI

H20-CSCI 100

critical curve

1

S et al. '95

o H20-CaCI2 1 2 0 -- « H20-MgCI2 A H20-KCI

sfP

m

Q

0 . 1 when compared to the most recent compilation by Driesner and Heinrich (2007); in the H 2 0-CaCl 2 system significant differences appear between the results by Shmulovich et al. (1995) and Bischoff et al. (1996), e.g., for xCaCl2 = 0.05 the data by Bischoff et al. (1996) indicate Pc ~ 75 MPa whereas the data by Shmulovich et al. (1995) indicate Pc ~ 142 MPa. In general, however, for a given xsaM the available data indicate P c NaC1 < P c KC1 < P s 2 < P 2. Contrary to the Pc-xc relations, the Pc-Tc relations are very consistent between the different studies (Fig. 4b). Within analytical and experimental uncertainties, the critical curves in the alkaline salt systems H 2 0-LiCl, H 2 0-NaCl, and H 2 0-KC1 coincide. In all three systems Pc is an almost linear function of Tc and increases with increasing temperature from the critical point of pure H 2 0 (22.1 MPa/374 °C) to about 120 MPa at 700 °C. The critical curves in the earth alkaline salt systems H 2 0-MgCl 2 and H 2 0-CaCl 2 are likewise almost linear functions of Tc, but are shifted to higher Pc when compared to the alkaline salt systems. Additionally, there c

M

c l

c

C a C 1

Expérimental

Studies

in Model Fluid

Systems

27

appears a notable pressure difference between the critical curves in the H 2 0-MgCl 2 and H 2 0CaCl 2 systems, the later being at higher pressure. Overall, the data indicate that for a crustal temperature of 800 °C, fluid immiscibility in binary H 2 0-alkaline salt systems is restricted to P < 150 MPa whereas in earth alkaline salt dominated systems fluid immiscibility may occur at pressure of up to ~ 250 MPa. The location of the three phase curve vapor + liquid + solid is quite different in the different systems although its general shape is identical (Fig. 4c,d). Data for the systems H 2 0NaCl, H 2 0-KC1, H 2 0-MgCl 2 , H 2 0-CaCl 2 , and H 2 0-SrCl 2 indicate that the three phase curve in earth alkaline salt systems is at lower pressure than in alkaline salt systems (Fig. 4c): The highest pressure attained by the three phase curve is at ~ 40 MPa in the H 2 0-NaCl system but only at ~ 8 MPa in the H 2 0-CaCl 2 system. The limits of fluid immiscibility in earth alkaline salt dominated systems are therefore not only expanded to higher P along the critical curve but also to lower P along the three phase curve when compared to alkaline salt dominated systems. The data for the three phase curve also indicate that increasing atomic weight of the cation decreases the pressure of the three phase curve and thus increases the field of fluid immiscibility in the alkaline salt systems, but the opposite effect occurs in earth alkaline salt systems: increasing pressure of the three phase curve and decreasing field of fluid immiscibility with increasing atomic weight of the cation. The effect of different anions on the location of the three phase curve has been studied by Keevil (1942) for the alkaline salt systems H 2 0NaCl, H 2 0-NaBr, H 2 0-Nal, H 2 0-KC1 and H 2 0-KI (Fig. 4d). These data consistently indicate decreasing pressure of the three phase curve with increasing atomic weight of the anion. Hydrolysis in H20-salt systems. Chlorine is one of the most important ligands in hydrothermal fluids and its availability largely controls solubility and mobility of several metal ions. In addition, the solubility of certain elements strongly depends on the acid, basic and/or alkaline character of hydrothermal fluids. In H 2 0-salt systems hydrolysis of the general form x H 2 0 + M^Cl", = x HC1 + M x+ (OH)- x occurs, providing a source for HC1 and hydroxides. At ambient conditions this equilibrium is strongly shifted to the left hand side and H 2 0-salt mixtures are neutral with negligible amounts of HC1 (e.g., Shmulovich et al. 1995). At higher crustal pressure and temperature conditions, however, the equilibrium may shift to the right hand side resulting in considerable amounts of HC1 and Mx+(OH)~x. In case of fluid phase separation, HC1 fractionates into the vapor whereas Mx+(OH)~x fractionates into the liquid (Shmulovich and Kotova 1982; Petrenko et al. 1989; Shmulovich et al. 1995, 2002; Bischoff et al. 1996). This gives rise to an HCl-enriched and M x+ (OH) vdepleted, potentially acidic vapor and a co-existing HCl-depleted and M x+ (OH) v enriched, potentially basic or alkaline liquid. The actual concentration of H 3 0 + , however, and thus the acidic or basic/alkaline nature of vapor and liquid depends on the dissociation of HC1 and Mx+(OH)~x at the specific P-T conditions. Despite its obvious geochemical importance, hydrolysis of the above form has only rarely been studied experimentally. Bischoff et al. (1996) studied the formation of HC1 and the onset of hydrolysis in the system H 2 0-CaCl 2 between 380 and 500 °C. Indirect evidence for hydrolysis and the concomitant opposite vapor-liquid fractionation of HC1 and Mx+(OH)"x comes from quench-pH measurements on experimentally phase separated fluids by Vakulenko et al. (1989) and Shmulovich et al. (2002). Bischoff et al. (1996) performed experiments at varying pressure along the 380,400,430, and 500 °C isotherms (see Fig. 5a for 400 and 500 °C data). Vapor samples recovered below 23.0 MPa at 380 °C, 25.0 MPa at 400 °C, 26.0 MPa at 430 °C, and 58.0 MPa at 500 °C showed scatter and reversals of trend in CI concentration. Vapor samples from the 400 and 500 °C isotherms were additionally analyzed for both Ca and CI. With decreasing pressure along both isotherms, i.e., increasing opening of the vapor-liquid two-phase field, CI concentration progressively and notably exceeds Ca concentration. As the Ca data roughly follow the CaCl 2 trend of the vapor limb at higher pressure, Ca concentrations

28

Liebscher

90 80 70 60

700-, O 0 A A

Ca " " in vapor

O •

Ch in vapor

•

critical point

•

g 600-1 —

50

hydrolysis

E £ 400-1

S Q.

~t

1

1

1

1

1

°

1 1

!

/

Ì 50.0

, X / Z V> \ ' 45.0 R \ N / * 35.0 \ / I* 35 5 O / 21.7

500-|

hydrolysis

0.000001 0.0001 0.01 1 CaCI2, Ca 2+ , CI- [eq/kg]

'

\

/ /48 ° 40 0

30 10

\

£ I

20

liquid

\ \\

21

40

45 -,

por

CaCI 2 in liquid and vapor

300.

•

H 2 0-NaCI

\ \

— - H 2 O-KCI T — I I |—I—I I

|—I—I

6

100

/

[MPa]

I—|

8

I—I—1—I

10

I—I—1—I

12

quench-pH

4 5 0 °C; H 2 0 - N a C I - H C I - ( H N 0 3 ) s y s t e m

ft 40 - 8* e*

4 0 0 °C; H 2 0 - C a C I 2 - H C I s y s t e m

30 25 20 -

Figure 5. Effect of hydrolysis reaction on fluid phase relations and pH values in coexisting vapor and liquid. Data from (a) Bischoff et al. (1996) for H 2 0-CaCl 2 , (b) Vakulenko et al. (1989) for H 2 0-NaCl and H 2 0-KC1, and (c) Shmulovich et al. (2002) for H 2 0-NaCl-HCl-(HN0 3 ) and H 2 0 CaCl 2 -HCl, see text for details.

hydrolysis ?

35 -

^

^

y

o

hydrolysis

•

e

•

15 2

4

6 8 quench-pH

10

12

most probably reflect simple CaCl 2 solubility in vapor, whereas the marked increase in CI indicates formation of HC1 (Bischoff et al. 1996). The data therefore suggest onset of the hydrolysis reaction 2H 2 0 + CaCl 2 = 2HC1 + Ca(OH) 2 at 23.0 MPa/380 °C, 25.0 MPa/400 °C, 26.0 MPa/430 °C, and 58.0 MPa/500 °C. The amount of HC1 produced by this reaction is remarkably and may reach 0.1 mol/kg in the vapor. The increasing HC1 concentration in the vapor is also mirrored by semiquantitative quench-pH measurements, which yielded pH values between 1 and 3 (Bischoff et al. 1996). The effect of hydrolysis on HC1 concentration in vapor and Mx+(OH)~x concentration in co-existing liquid is also shown by quench-pH measurements by Vakulenko et al. (1989; Fig. 5b) and Shmulovich et al. (2002; Fig. 5c). Vakulenko et al. (1989) studied the H 2 0-NaCl system at 21.7 to 50 MPa/~ 400 to 650 °C. Their start solution had a neutral pH. After quenching, pH values in the vapor were as low as ~ 3.5 whereas pH values in co-existing liquid reached up to ~ 10.5. Shmulovich et al. (2002) performed experiments in the systems H 2 0-NaCl-HCl-HN0 3 at 450 °C (pHstart = 0.5) and H 2 0-CaCl 2 -HCl at 400 °C (pHstart = 1.8), originally designed to study vapor-liquid fractionation of the REE (see below). The quench-pH of liquid samples was found to be generally higher than the quench-pH of co-existing vapor. At 400 °C in the system H 2 0-CaCl 2 -HCl, Shmulovich et al. (2002) found a marked increase in quench-pH of the liquid samples recovered below about 25.5 MPa, which they attributed to the onset of notable hydrolysis reaction. The 25.5 MPa/400 °C observed by Shmulovich et al. (2002) as onset of hydrolysis in the system H 2 0-CaCl 2 -HCl correspond well with the 25.0 MPa/400 °C observed by Bischoff et al. (1996) for the pure H 2 0-CaCl 2 system

Experimental

Studies

in Model Fluid

Systems

29

Other binary system critical c u r v e s Fluid immiscibility has been studied in several other binary systems, especially at comparable low P and T conditions, but these systems are mostly of only minor importance for crustal processes: e.g., Keevil (1942) studied the systems H 2 0-Na 2 C0 3 and H 2 0-Na 2 S0 4 up to ~ 370 °C/21 MPa and Urusova (1974) studied the system H 2 0NaOH at 350 to 550 °C/11 to 90MPa.~C)f these, only the data by Urusova (1974) on the H 2 0-Na0H system are discussed here in greater detail (Fig. 6). Urusova (1974) focused on the composition of the liquid but also presented some vapor data, which allows comparison with the H 2 0-NaCl system. The data indicate that at constant P and T Figure 6. Fluid phase relations in the system are x H and X N a O H generally higher H 2 0 - N a 0 H compared to the system H 2 0 vapor u !md than corresponding xNaC1 and xNaC1 ' in NaCl. [data sources: U '74: Urusova 1974: D the H 2 0-NaCl system. As a consequence, the '07: Driesner and Heinrich 2007] critical curve in the H 2 0-Na0H system is shifted to higher concentration and notable higher pressure: At 550 °C, the critical point in the H 2 0 - N a 0 H system is at x H = 0.1 and 90 MPa compared to xNaC1 =0.06 and 75 MPa in the H 2 0-NaCl system (NaCl data from Driesner and Heinrich 2007). Although Urusova (1974) did not study the vapor + liquid + solid three phase curve, her data at 400 and 450 °C clearly show that the three phase curve is at lower P but higher x than in the H 2 0-NaCl system. For natural systems, this means that the field of fluid immiscibility in highly basic and alkaline fluids is expanded and fluid behavior may no longer be approximated by the H 2 0-NaCl system. N a 0

v a p o r

U q m d

N a 0

P-V-T-x RELATIONS IN TERNARY MODEL FLUID SYSTEMS Among the experimentally studied model fluid systems, fluid-fluid equilibria in ternary H 2 0-salt-non polar gas systems are those with the highest geological relevance. Fluid phase relations in these ternary systems are controlled by the fluid phase relations within and between the two binary boundary systems H 2 0-non polar gas and H 2 0-salt. The third binary boundary system salt-non polar gas can be taken as immiscible over the entire crustal P-T range. Despite differences in detailed fluid phase relations between the different ternary H 2 0salt-non polar gas systems, some general results of the different experimental studies may be outlined: i) Adding salt to a H 2 0-non polar gas system decreases the solubility of the non polar gas in the liquid at given P and T (salting out effect); ii) The solubility of salt in the H 2 0-non polar gas mixture is generally low; iii) In ternary H 2 0-salt-non polar gas systems the field of fluid immiscibility is significantly expanded in terms of P, T, and x when compared to the binary boundary systems H 2 0- non polar gas and H 2 0-salt. In these ternary fluid systems, fluid immiscibility may therefore prevail over the entire crustal P-T range (see Heinrich 2007b). Below, experimental data in the ternary systems H 2 0-NaCl-C0 2 , H 2 0-CaCl 2 -C0 2 , and H 2 0NaCl-CH 4 are presented in some detail whereas other systems are only briefly addressed. H 2 0 - N a C l - C 0 2 system Like the two binary boundary systems H 2 0 - C 0 2 and H 2 0-NaCl, the H 2 0-NaCl-C0 2 system is the best studied ternary model fluid system. A large number of experimental studies has investigated the fluid phase relations within the H 2 0-NaCl-C0 2 ternary at crustal P-T

30

Liebscher

conditions (e.g., Ellis and Golding 1963; Takenouchi and Kennedy 1965; Naumov et al. 1974; Gehrig 1980; Kotel'nikov and Kotel'nikova 1990; Johnson 1991; Frantz et al. 1992; Joyce and Holloway 1993; Shmulovich and Plyasunova 1993; Schmidt et al. 1995; Gibert et al. 1998; Shmulovich and Graham 1999, 2004; Schmidt and Bodnar 2000; Anovitz et al. 2004). The effect of NaCl on the solubility of C 0 2 in H 2 0 liquid at temperature conditions below the critical curve of the H 2 0 - C 0 2 binary has been studied by Takenouchi and Kennedy (1965). Their data at 150 and 250 °C show notably decreasing C 0 2 concentrations in the liquid with increasing NaCl concentrations (Fig. 7): At 100 MPa, e.g., addition of only xNaC1 = 0.0715 [here xNaC1 = nNiCi/(nN!ia + «H2O)1 decreases the solubility of C 0 2 in the liquid from xCOl ~ 0.04 (at 150 °C) and 0.12 (at 250 °C) in the pure H 2 0 - C 0 2 binary system (Takenouchi and Kennedy 1964) to only xCo2 ~ 0.02 (at 150 °C) and 0.03 (at 250 °C) in the H 2 0-NaCl-C0 2 ternary. This salting out effect therefore significantly expands the field of immiscibility in the ternary compared to the binary system.

160

150 °C NNACI/(NNACI + N^O) = 0.0715 0.0193 0.0

140

0 P

120

d O

P

80

p p / / P P P P P P P P o P o fS o .o'.cr

60

20

O

O O O ö P

100

40

P

0.2 almost negligible. In these systems even smallest amounts of salt are sufficient to induce fluid phase separation. Likewise, the one phase field of ternary mixtures is very restricted and differs not only between the systems but also with changing pressure and temperature. The crest of the vapor-liquid two-phase field is at x H , 0 ~ 0.8 in the H 2 0-NaCl-C0 2 system at both P-T conditions and in the H 2 0-NaCl-CH 4 system at 600 °C/200 MPa. It is at x H , 0 ~ 0.9 in the H 2 0-NaCl-CH 4 system at 500 °C/100 MPa and in the H 2 0-CaCl 2 -C0 2 system at 600 °C/200 MPa and at almost x H , 0 ~ 0.95 in the H 2 0- CaCl 2 -C0 2 system at 500 °C/100 MPa (a comparison between the H 2 6NaCl-C0 2 and H 2 0-CaCl 2 -C0 2 systems at 500 °C/500 MPa and 800 °C/900 MPa is given in Fig. 5 by Heinrich 2007b; this volume). Other ternary systems Experimental studies in ternary systems others than those described above are rare. As these systems are also of only minor geologic importance, the respective studies are only shortly summarized here. Zhang and Frantz (1992) studied the system H 2 0-C0 2 -CH 4 between 400 and 600 °C/100 and 300 MPa. The limits of fluid immiscibility in this ternary system were found to be between 300 and 350 °C depending on pressure and bulk composition. Under typical

Experimental

Studies

in Model Fluid

500 °C/100 MPa

35

Systems

600 "C/200 MPa

NaCI, CaCI 2

NaCI, CaCI 2 H20-NaCI-C02 H20-NaCI-CH4 H20-CaCI2-C02

vapor limb

co2

o

H2O

0

0.2 XC02; X C H 4

0.4

H20

0

0.2

0.4

CH 4

XCO2; XCH4

Figure 12. Limits of fluid miscibility in the ternary systems H 2 0 - N a C l - C 0 2 , H 2 0-CaCl 2 -C0 2 , and H 2 0 NaCl-CH 4 at 500 °C/100 MPa and 600 °C/200 MPa. 1® denotes single phase fluid conditions, 2® denotes two coexisting fluid phases.

crustal P-Tconditions this system exhibit complete miscibility. Seitz et al. (1994) determined volumetric fluid properties in the ternary system CO2-CH4-N2 at 200 °C/100 MPa.

TRACE ELEMENT AND STABLE ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION Fluid phase separation is a potentially important and especially effective mechanism to fractionate and ultimately concentrate certain elements (for the role of fluid phase separation in ore formation see Heinrich 2007a). However, studies on trace element and stable isotope fractionation are comparable rare and restricted to simple model fluid systems: In seawater-like H 2 0-NaCl model systems, Bischoff and Rosenbauer (1987) studied vapor-liquid fractionation of K, Ca, Mg, Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, B, S0 4 , C0 2 , and H 2 S at ~ 390 °C and Berndt and Seyfried (1990) that of Li, K, Ca, Sr, Ba, Br, and B at 425 to 450 °C; Shmulovich et al. (2002) then studied the fractionation of the rare earth elements (REE) at 350 to 450 °C in the systems H 2 0NaCl±HN0 3 ±HCl and H 2 0-CaCl 2 -HCl; Pokrovski et al. (2005) presented a set of systematic fractionation data in the H 2 0-NaCl system for As, Sb, Fe, Zn, Cu, Ag, and Au at 350, 400, and 450 °C; the fractionation of B and Br in the H 2 0-NaCl system was systematically studied by Liebscher et al. (2005, 2006) between 380 and 450 °C; fractionation data at notably higher P-T conditions include those for Cu by Williams et al. (1995) at 800 °C/100 MPa and 850 °C/50 MPa, for B by Schatz et al. (2004) at 800 °C/100 MPa, and for Fe and Au by Simon et al. (2005) at 800 °C/110 to 145 MPa. Studies on the vapor-liquid fractionation of stable isotopes include those by Horita et al. (1995), Berndt et al. (1996), Shmulovich et al. (1999), and Driesner and Seward (2000) on D/H in the systems H 2 0-NaCl and H 2 0-KC1; by Horita et al. (1995), Shmulovich et al. (1999) and Driesner and Seward (2000) on l s 0 / 1 6 0 in the systems H 2 0-NaCl and H 2 0-KC1; by Spivack et al. (1990) and Liebscher et al. (2005) on n B/ 1 0 B in the system H 2 0-NaCl; by Magenheim (1995), Phillips (1999), and Liebscher et al. (2006) on 37C1/35C1 in the system H 2 0-NaCl; and by Foustoukos et al. (2004) and Liebscher et al. (2007) on 7Li/6Li in the systems H 2 0-NaCl and H 2 0-LiCl, respectively.

Trace element fractionation In their experimental study, Pokrovski et al. (2005) showed that the density difference between co-existing vapor and liquid is the prime factor that controls trace element fractionation

36

Liebscher

between co-existing vapor and liquid. The available experimental data on trace element fractionation below 500 °C in the binary H 2 0-NaCl system (only for which systematic density data are available, see above) are therefore plotted versus the vapor-liquid density difference in Figures 13 and 14. For each element, the data define a (roughly) linear trend forced through log(cvap0/c]iqilid) = 0 at log(pvap0/p]iqilid) = 0; i.e., no fractionation at the critical curve. At T < 500 °C, all studied elements fractionate in favor of the liquid. Depending on their fractionation behavior, however, different groups of elements can be distinguished. Gold, Sb, and especially As display an about 2 to 4 orders of magnitude weaker preference for the liquid than Fe, Cu, Zn, and Ag, which form a relative coherent group of elements (Fig. 13a,b). Pokrovski et al. (2005) observed two different sets of fractionation data for Sb, which they attributed to two different Sb species (Fig. 13a). Boron shows the smallest vapor-liquid fractionation of all elements studied, whereas Br vapor-liquid fractionation is comparable to that of Sb, Au, and the alkalines (Fig. 13c,d). The alkaline elements Li and K have a notable smaller vapor-liquid fractionation than the earth alkaline elements Ca, Sr, and B a (Fig. 13d). However, alkaline as well as earth alkaline elements indicate increasing preference for the liquid with increasing atomic weight. The fractionation data for As (Pokrovski et al. 2002, 2005) and B (Liebscher et al. 2005) allow addressing the influence of temperature on the vapor-liquid fractionation (Fig. 14). At a given density difference, vapor-liquid fractionation gets smaller with increasing temperature. In case of B, the decreasing preference for the liquid with increasing temperature is also highlighted by the data of Schatz et al. (2004) at 800 °C/100 MPa, which indicate preferential fractionation of B into the vapor. Unfortunately, all the above data were derived in experiments free of sulfur. Natural data indicate that sulfur species may play an important role for the transport of certain elements, e.g., Cu, Au, As, and Ag (see Heinrich 2007a; this volume). First experimental data in sulfur bearing systems (Nagaseki and Hayashi 2006; Pokrovski et al. 2006) indicate that the vapor-liquid fractionation behavior of these elements may significantly change in the presence of sulfur (see also Fig. 3 of Heinrich 2007a; this volume). The experimental results by Shmulovich et al. (2002) on the vapor-liquid fractionation of the rare earth elements (REE) at 350 to 450 °C in the systems H 2 0-NaCl±HN0 3 ±HCl and H 2 0 CaCl 2 -HCl consistently showed a general strong preference of the R E E for the liquid (Fig. 15). However, the data also show that this preference is strongest for the light R E E and weakest for the heavy REE. Fluid phase separation is therefore expected to fractionate the light from the heavy R E E and by this changing the R E E patterns in the co-existing phases. Shmulovich et al. (2002) calculated the exchange coefficients ÍTDREE"L!1 [= (REE/La)V!lpo/(REE/La)liqilid], which describe the relative vapor-liquid fractionation of the individual REE. They found a linear dependence of _KDREE"L!l on the pressure difference to the critical curve. Additionally, for a given pressure difference to the critical curve if D REE " L!l values increase from light to heavy R E E and are higher in the H 2 0-CaCl 2 -HCl system at 400 °C than in the H 2 0-NaCl±HN0 3 ±HCl system at 450 °C. However, it is not clear whether this different behavior is due to the different temperature or due to the different chemical systems. Stable isotope fractionation Horita et al. (1995; up to 350 °C) and Driesner and Seward (2000; up to 413 °C) studied the effect of NaCl and KC1 on the stable isotope fractionation of D/H and 1 8 0/ 1 6 0 (Fig. 16). Above 200 °C, 1000 ln(Vi(D) is generally positive and slightly increases with increasing temperature. Contrary, 1000 lna v _i( ls O) is generally negative but vapor-liquid fractionation decreases with increasing temperature. A different effect of NaCl versus KC1 on D/H fractionation is not apparent in the data, while the data indicate a slightly smaller effect of KC1 than of NaCl on 18Q/16Q fractionation at higher temperature. The authors then used their fractionation data to calculate the apparent isotope salt effect 1000 lnr\ pp , i.e., the difference in isotope fractionation in the salt bearing systems compared to the pure H 2 0 system (the apparent isotope salt effect is therefore only defined below the critical point of the pure H 2 0 system). 1000 lnr app (D) is generally negative and the effect of adding salt to the system notably increases with increasing

Expérimental a

Studies in Model Fluid B

o .

1

O" oCL 5

O

-

1 0

0 -.

s,"-''*/

-0.5.

-1.0

'

1

-1.5.

S b C , " ' * *

O" O

A

o

V ' /

-2.0.

A

-2.5.

/

Sb

*

o

/

O As A Sb (as SbCI ?) A Sb • Au

-3.0. Au

/

1 -1.0

-

-2.0 -3.0

-

-4.0

-

>

V

-3.5. -1.5

1

1

-0.5

0

o

I

-5.0 -

8

O A ^ •

?

Fe Cu ' ^ . ' Î t P Zn ' H t ]

-6.0

T -1.5

-0.5

l°g(Pvapor/piiquid)

0

0 1 B

-0.5

- T T V "

-0,5

-

O 1

O" O

-1.0

-1.0

-

-1,5

-

-2.0

-

-2,5

-

r / A''

>

o

CT

o

-2.0

A # O A v

Br'

-2.5

-3.0 -1.0

-0.8

-0.6 lo

B, B & S '90 Br, B & S '90 Br, L et al. '06 B 450 °C, Letal.'05 B 400 °C, Letal.'05

-0.4

Fe cu Zn Ag

T

-1.0

l°g(pvapo/PNquid)

C

37

Systems

-3.0

-0.2

-1.0

>

r t?t '/'

/

/ //

/

Â

t£f S# -1—

-1—

-1—

- r

-0.8

-0.6

-0.4

-0.2

lo

9(Pvapo/Pliquid)

A LI V K • Ca ^ Sr Q Ba

9(Pvapor'Pliquid)

Figure 13. Experimentally determined vapor-liquid fractionation of trace elements in H 2 0 - N a C l fluids as function of the density difference between vapor and liquid. Dashed lines are linear fits forced through the origin, [data sources: (a) and (b): Pokrovski et al. 2005; B & S '90: Berndt and Seyfried 1990; L et al. '05: Liebscher et al. 2005; L et al. '06: Liebscher et al. 2006b; (d): Bischoff and Rosenbauer 1987]

A

Arsenic

0

Boron

0 -,

-0.2 -0.4

1

-0.1

-

J" - 0 . 2

-

-0.3

-

-0.4

-

A'

-0.6

4 ; -0.8 o

1-1.0 o

/O

450 ' c

A A + O O

CT - 1 . 2

o

4 0 0 °C -1.4 -1.6

350 °C

450 °C; P et a 450 °C; P et a 400 °C; P et a 400 °C; P et a 350 °C; P et a

-0.5

-1.8 -1.4

-1.2

-1.0 lo

-0.8

-0.6

-0.4 -0.2

9(Pvapo/Pliquid)

0

-1.0

-1—

-1—

-1—

-0.8

-0.6

-0.4

lo

-0.2

9(Pvapo/Pliquid)

Figure 14. Temperature dependence of experimentally determined vapor-liquid fractionation of (a) As and (b) B in H 2 0 - N a C l fluids as function of the density difference between vapour and liquid. Dashed lines are linear fits forced through the origin, [data sources: P et al. '02: Pokrovski et al. 2002; P et al. '05: Pokrovski et al. 2005; (b): Liebscher et al. 2005]

38

Liebscher H20-CaCl2-HCI system 400 °C

H 2 0-NaCI-HCI-HN0 3 system 450 °C

0.1 -

X

0 . 1 O" o CL

0.01 -

\

0 . 0 1 -

A Lu

- Gti

Q 0.001 -

LLJ

a:

Q

0 . 0 0 1 -

0.0001. 2

4 6 Peril. - P [MPa]

2

10

4

Pent. - P [MPa]

3.0 - 2.6

-

Figure 15. Experimentally determined vapor-liquid fractionation of the rare earth elements as function of the distance to the critical curve in the (a) H 2 0 - N a C l - H C l H N 0 3 and (b) H 2 0 - C a C l 2 - H C l systems, (c) Calculated R E E exchange coefficients ArDREE La between vapor and liquid, [data f r o m Shmulovich et al. 2002]

/o 2.2

-

i 1.8

-

oo>.

Gd

o/ 1.4 o a 4 0 0 °C; H 2 0 - C a C I 2 - H C I ® ^ 4 5 0 °C; H 2 0 - N a C I - H C I - H N 0 3

2

4 6 Peril. - P [MPa]

8

10

temperature. 1000 lnr a p p ( 1 8 0/ 1 6 0), on the other hand, is positive at T > 150 °C and the effect of adding salt to the system is much less pronounced than in the case of D/H fractionation. Stable isotope vapor-liquid fractionation above the critical point of pure H 2 0 has been studied for D/H (Berndt et al. 1996; Shmulovich et al. 1999), 1 8 0/ 1 6 0 (Shmulovich et al. 1999; Driesner and Seward 2000), n B/ 1 0 B (Spivack et al. 1990; Liebscher et al. 2005), 7 Li/ 6 Li (Foustoukos et al. 2004; Liebscher et al. 2007), and 37C1/35C1 (Magenheim 1995; Phillips 1999; Liebscher et al. 2006) (Fig. 17). No coherent vapor-liquid fractionation behavior of the different stable isotope systems is apparent. Within the systems D/H and n B/ 1 0 B, the heavy isotope has a preference for the vapor whereas in the 1 8 0/ 1 6 0 system the heavy isotope fractionates into the liquid. In the systems 7 Li/ 6 Li and 37C1/35C1 no clear trend is visible at all, and the data suggest a lack of notable stable isotope fractionation in these systems, at least at the experimental P-T conditions. The fractionation data for D/H, 1 8 0/ 1 6 0, n B/ 1 0 B have been fitted with a logarithmic function of the form 1000 lna v 4 = a + b ln[(P - Pcrit.) + e("a/6)] following Berndt et al. (1996). This allows for extrapolation of the stable isotope vapor-liquid fractionation data to salt saturated conditions, where fractionation is largest. Extrapolated maximum stable isotope fractionation is 1000 lnav_i(D) = 15.1 %c at 350 °C, = 14.5 %c at 400 °C, and = 13.6 %B at 450 °C; 1000 l n a ^ O ) = -1.6 %B at 350 °C and = -1.13 %B at 450 °C; and 1000 lna V 4( n B) = 0.94 %B at 400 °C and = 1.43 %B at 450 °C. The reader has to be aware that contrary to the extrapolation presented here, Shmulovich et al. (1999) interpreted their data for 1000 lnav_i(D) and 1000 lnav_i(180) as linearly dependent on NaCl concentration

Experimental Studies in Model Fluid Systems

39

0 -, - 2

-

A

-4 -6

'i ' in j* i

-

OÍA

7

KCl, D & S '00 -10

NaCI, D & S '00

-

NaCI, H et al. '95

-1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

-12

-1

50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400

Tempertaure [°C]

Tempertaure [°C] 1.2

-.

1

-

o0

. 0.8 0.6

t 0.4 0.2

o

-

-

A

A

4 8

o

•

0 -0.2

-

-0.4 -

-1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 Tempertaure [°C]

-0.6

0

50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 Tempertaure [°C]

Figure 16. Stable isotope fractionation and apparent isotope salt effect for (a), (b) D/H and (c), (d) 1 8 0/ 1 6 0 between vapor and liquid in the systems H 2 0-NaCl and H 2 0-KC1 as function of temperature, [data sources: open triangles: Horita et al. 1995 for H 2 0-NaCl; open circles: Driesner and Seward 2000 for H 2 0-NaCl; filled circles: Driesner and Seward 2000 for H 2 0-KC1]

in the liquid. Consequently, they fitted and extrapolated their data with a linear function of salt concentration in the liquid and arrived at notably higher maximum fractionation at salt saturation: Their data interpretation indicates maximum stable isotope fractionation of 1000 lnav_i(D) = 26 to 28 %B at 350 to 600 °C and 1000 ln saturation

4 0 0 °C

O S et al. '99 350 °C S et al. '99 400 °C S et al. '99; 450 °C

A ^ •

0 -

D & S '00; 352 °C

A D & S '00; 396 °C

-0.5 -1.0

o A

• •

B et al '96 450 °C

•

r 10 Peril

-

S et al '99 350 °C S et al '99 400 °C S et al '99 450 °C B et al '96 400 °C

1

1

15

20

4 5 0 °C

-1.5 -

1

350 °C

-2.0

1 10

r~ 15

-1 20

Pent - P [MPa]

[MPa]

- P

¿¡is*fltf*®

1.0

salt s a t u r a t i o n 4 5 0 °C . ^

4 0 0 °C

ill

0.5 1000 In a„.| 1000 In a„.| = 0

=0

0 -

A - 4 5 0 °C

-0.5 •

4 4 0 °C

L et al. '05; 400 °C

A S et al. '90

5

O L et al. '07; 400 °C • F et al. '04

10

-1.5

15

20

Peril. - P [ M P a ]

-H .to u+

1000 In a„.|

{

/jo

4 5 0 °C 1'

2

=0

P '99; 400 °C b '95 M

• LL et al.'06; 400 °C O L et al. '06; 450 °C

3

Peril. - P [ M P a ]

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Peril. - P [ M P a ]

4 3 1 °C

1

-1.0

O Let al. '05; 450 °C

4

5

Figure 17. Stable isotope fractionation between vapor and liquid for (a) D/H, (b) 18 0/ 1 6 0, (c) n B/ 1 0 B, (d) 7Li/6Li, and (e) 37 C1/35C1 as function of the distance to the critical curve. Data in (a), (b), and (c) have been fitted with a logarithmic function of the form 1000 lncvi = a + b ln[(P - P ^ ) + e^ 3 *'] (dashed lines), see text for details, [data sources: S et al. '90: Spivack et al. 1990; M '95: Magenheim 1995; B et al. '96: Berndt et al. 1996; P '99: Phillips 1999; S et al. '99: Shmulovich et al. 1999; D & S '00: Driesner and Seward 2000; F et al. '04: Foustoukos et al. 2004; L et al. '05, '06, '07: Liebscher et al. 2005, 2006a, 2007]

and corresponding metal transport; mineral equilibria in the presence of immiscible H 2 0C0 2 -electrolyte solutions were studied by Shmulovich and Kotova (1982) while Kaszuba et al. (2005) evaluated fluid-rock reactions in the presence of H 2 0-C0 2 -NaCl fluids; Holness and Graham (1991) finally studied dihedral angles in the system H 2 0-C0 2 -NaCl-calcite and their implications for fluid flow during metamorphism. Petrenko et al. (1990) studied the solubility of either synthetic galena, troilite or sphalerite in either aqueous NH4C1-, MgCl 2 - or HCl-solutions. Pressure conditions during the experiments were not determined exactly but are assumed to not exceed 15 to 16 MPa, implying that the

Expérimental

Studies

in Model Fluid

Systems

41

systems were immiscible in all runs. With decreasing pressure, i.e., decreasing autoclave filling and consequently increasing vapor fraction, the authors observed increasing mineral solubility, which was most pronounced in the H 2 0-NH 4 C1 system. They attributed this increase in solubility to increasing formation of HC1 via the reaction NH4CI = NH 3 + HC1 Interestingly, the authors speculate that NH 3 preferentially fractionates into the vapor whereas HC1 fractionates into the liquid, by that decreasing the quench-pH of the liquid. This would be at variance to what is observed for hydrolysis in water-salt systems in which HC1 preferentially fractionates into the vapor (see above). Foustoukos and Seyfried (2007b) studied quartz solubility in aqueous NaCl ± KC1 solutions at 365 to 430°C/21.9 to 38.1 MPa, i.e., near and within the two-phase region. The observed results were identical in the H 2 0-NaCl and H 2 0-NaCl-KCl systems within experimental and analytical uncertainties. Runs within the two-phase field showed dissolved silica concentrations in the vapor that range from 2.81 to 14.6 mmolal. With increasing chloride concentration in the vapor, due to changing P-T conditions of the experiments, silica concentrations likewise increased. Unfortunately, the authors were unable to sample the coexisting liquid due to experimental constraints. Therefore, no information is available about dissolved silica concentrations in the liquid or about different net effects of single phase versus two-phase fluid conditions on quartz solubility. The authors then used the observed relation between pressure, temperature, chloride concentration and silica concentration to model the conditions of fluid phase separation in vent systems at 9°50'N East Pacific Rise (for more details see Foustoukos and Seyfried 2007a). Bischoff and Rosenbauer (1987) performed leaching experiments between natural basalt and two-phase fluids of ordinary and evolved seawater-like composition along adiabatic ascent paths from 415 °C/33 MPa to ~ 390 °C/25 MPa. The evolved seawater-like composition was characterized by lower S0 4 , Mg, Ca, Fe, Mn, B, Si0 2 , and C 0 2 when compared to ordinary, natural seawater. However, both fluids showed comparable effects upon experimental fluid-basalt interaction: i) During adiabatic ascent and expansion the quench-pH of the liquid decreases whereas that of the vapor increases, the opposite to what is expected from experimental hydrolysis in water-salt systems (see above); ii) heavy-metal concentrations increase in the liquid and are generally higher than in co-existing vapor, which itself is nevertheless characterized by notable contents of Si0 2 , Fe and other heavy metals. The vapor thus constitutes an effective transport medium for these elements even at the low P-T conditions studied; iii) both fluids gained notable amounts of Zn from the basalt under two-fluid phase conditions when compared to single fluid phase conditions; and iv) fluid-phase separation increases the solubility of pyrite. The authors also concluded that density differences between vapor and liquid are only minor along the studied ascent path and that vapor-liquid mixtures most likely ascend together along the same conduit allowing for continuous equilibration. Shmulovich and Kotova (1982) studied the carbonatization reaction of grossular to calcite, anorthite, wollastonite/quartz in the presence of aqueous CaCl 2 and KC1 solutions at 500 to 700 °C/100 to 400 MPa. The P,T,x conditions of their experiments corresponded to either single phase or two-phase fluid conditions. While experiments under single phase fluid conditions were reproducible and internally consistent, the results from experiments under two-phase fluid conditions were not reproducible. The author speculate that in these experiments different reaction kinetics for vapor and liquid, fractionation of the hydrolysis products of CaCl 2 between vapor and liquid, and different solubility of calcite in vapor and liquid influenced the results in an unpredictable manner. The effect of injecting C 0 2 into a NaCl fluid-rock system was studied by Kaszuba et al. (2005) at 200 °C/20 MPa in order to evaluate the integrity of a geologic carbon repository.

42

Liebscher

A 5.5 molal NaCl fluid was reacted with a mixture of synthetic arkose (as representation of an aquifer) and natural argillaceous shale (as representation of an aquitard). After 32 days and reaching steady state conditions, the system was injected with C0 2 and allowed to react for an additional 45 days. Injection of C0 2 yielded a fluid with xCo2bulk ~ 0.19, which under the experimental conditions un-mixes into a liquid with xCOl ~ 0.02 and a vapor with xCOl ~ 0.82 (Takenouchi and Kennedy 1964). A parallel experiment was run for 77 days without injection of C0 2 . Upon C0 2 injection, the authors observed a decrease in liquid pH and a significant, abrupt increase in Ca (15%), Mg (800 %), Si0 2 (80 %), Fe (100 %), and Mn (500 %) concentrations. Compared to the C0 2 -free, single phase fluid experiment, the results indicate accelerated fluid-silicate reaction rates and enhanced silica solubility under two-phase fluid conditions. Based on these findings, the authors suggest the change between single phase and two-phase fluid conditions as a potential mechanism to mobilize respectively precipitate silica, potentially leading to silica cement and quartz vein mineralization. The permeability of a rock is controlled by the geometry of the fluid-filled pores in the rock, which itself depends on the wetting behavior or dihedral angle (©) of the fluid against the solids: For © < 60°, a connected grain-edge network of fluid filled channels establishes, making the rock permeable to fluid flow; for © > 60°, however, isolated, non-connected fluid filled pores form and the rock is impermeable to fluid flow. In two- or multi-phase fluid systems, differences between the dihedral angle of the co-existing fluids will therefore largely control whether the coexisting fluids are able to segregate from each other. Holness and Graham (1991) experimentally determined the dihedral angles between fluid and calcite in the system H20-C02-NaCl-calcite. Experiments were performed at 100 and 200 MPa/550 to 750 °C with binary H 2 0-C0 2 and H 2 0-NaCl and ternary H 2 0-C0 2 -NaCl fluids, resulting in single phase and two-phase fluid conditions depending on P,T and x. Under two-phase fluid conditions, the authors observed a clear bimodal distribution of © for H 2 0-C0 2 -NaCl fluids with ©j ~ 80 to 90° and ©2 ~ 40 to 55°. By comparison with results from runs with binary, single phase H 2 0-C0 2 and H 2 0-NaCl fluids, they concluded that ©j represents a vapor with about xCOl = 0.9 whereas ©2 represents a liquid with about 40 to 50 wt% NaCl. In runs with two-phase H 2 0-NaCl fluids, a bimodal distribution of © was only observed for rapid cooling; slowly cooled runs showed a unimodal distribution of ©. In summary, the authors conclude that i) in marbles a connected fluid phase will only form for fluids with either xCo2 ~ 0-5 or > 30 wt% NaCl, ii) quartzites/psammites act as aquifers relative to limestones for water-rich or saline conditions, iii) compared to quartzites/ psammites only limestones will permit pervasive fluid flow for fluids with xCOl ~ 0.2 to 0.6, and iv) both lithologies are permeable to highly saline fluids (examples of two-phase fluid flow under metamorphic conditions are given in Heinrich 2007b, this volume).

CONCLUDING REMARKS The principal fluid phase relations in the basic binary water-salt and water-non polar gas and ternary water-salt-non polar gas systems are well established. However, there are still substantial gaps in knowledge: i) In binary water-salt systems, systematic density data as function of P, T,x are restricted to the H 2 0-NaCl system. But density data are not only important for the understanding of trace element fractionation between co-existing fluids (see above) but are essential for any modeling of multiphase fluid flow in hydrothermal systems (see Driesner and Geiger 2007, this volume); ii) Experimental studies in the system H 2 0-SrCl 2 and in iron chloride bearing systems are virtually absent. Compared to H 2 0-NaCl, the experimental data bases for the systems H 2 0-LiCl, H20-CSC1, and H 2 0-MgCl 2 are insufficient; iii) In ternary water-salt-non polar gas systems, the exact position of vapor-liquid tie-lines as function of P and T are improperly known; iv) Experiments on fluid phase relations in quaternary system are still lacking; v) The effect of hydrolysis is only poorly constraint in binary water-salt systems and has not yet been explicitly studied in other systems.

Expérimental

Studies

in Model Fluid

Systems

43

Experimental studies on trace element and stable isotope fractionation between co-existing fluids focused on simple binary water-salt systems with chlorine as only or dominant anion. Only most recently have experiments addressed trace element fractionation between co-existing fluids in sulfur-bearing systems. Experiments on trace element and stable isotope fractionation in C 0 2 bearing systems are to the author's knowledge lacking. Recent advantages in equations of state (see Gottschalk 2007, this volume) and numerical modeling (see Driesner and Geiger 2007, this volume) now provide the opportunity to model multiphase fluid flow. The next step is to combine these modeling approaches with trace element and stable isotope fractionation data. For this purpose, however, the experimental data base for trace element and stable isotope fractionation between co-existing fluids has to be notably enlarged in P, T, and x. The few experimental studies on fluid-mineral and fluid-rock interactions under two-fluid phase conditions show that the phy sicochemical characteristics of fluid-mineral/rock interaction may significantly change under multiphase fluid conditions when compared to the simple single phase fluid case. As permeability, mineral solubility, fluid phase segregation (among others) are key parameters for the physical and chemical evolution of any hydrothermal system, experimental determination of the physicochemical characteristics of fluid-mineral/rock under multiphase fluid flow is definitely a challenging but also promising task for future research.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This paper benefited from critical and thorough reading and comments by T. Driesner and C. A. Heinrich. Extensive and continuous discussions with W. Heinrich, M. Gottschalk, C. Schmidt and R. L. Romer over the last years significantly improved the author's knowledge (and hopefully understanding) of immiscible fluids but any error is his own. Final editorial handling by J. Rosso is gratefully acknowledged.

REFERENCES Anovitz LM, Labotka TC, Blencoe JG, Horita J (2004) Experimental determination of the activity-composition relations and phase equilibria of H 2 0 - C 0 2 - N a C l fluids at 500 °C, 500 bars. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 68:3557-3567 Arnorsson S, Stefansson A, Bjarnason JO (2007) Fluid-fluid interactions in geothermal systems. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:259-312 Berndt ME, Seal II RR, Shanks III WC, Seyfried Jr. W E (1996) Hydrogen isotope systematics of phase separation in submarine hydrothermal systems: Experimental calibration and theoretical methods. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 60:1595-1604 Berndt ME, Seyfried Jr W E (1990) Boron, bromine, and other trace elements as clues to the fate of chlorine in mid-ocean ridge vent fluids. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 54:2235-2245 Berndt ME, Seyfried Jr W E (1997) Calibration of Br/CI fractionation during subcritical phase separation of seawater: Possible halite at 9 to 10°N East Pacific Rise. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 61:2849-2854 Bischoff JL (1991) Densities of liquids and vapors in boiling NaCl-H 2 0 solutions: A PVTx summary from 300° to 500 °C. Am J Sci 291:309-338 Bischoff JL, Pitzer KS (1985) Phase relations and adiabats in boiling seafloor geothermal systems. Earth Planet Sci Lett 75:327-338 Bischoff JL, Pitzer KS (1989) Liquid-vapor relations for the system NaCl-H 2 0: Summary of the P-T-x surface from 300 to 500 °C. Am J Sci 289:217-248 Bischoff JL, Rosenbauer RJ (1984) The critical point and two-phase boundary of seawater, 200-500 °C. Earth Planet Sci Lett 68:172-180 Bischoff JL, Rosenbauer RJ (1987) Phase separation in seafloor geothermal systems: An experimental study of the effects on metal transport. Am J Sci 287:953-978 Bischoff JL, Rosenbauer RJ (1988) Liquid-vapor relations in the critical region of the system NaCl-H 2 0 from 380 to 415 °C: A refined determination of the critical point and two-phase boundary of seawater. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 52:2121-2126 Bischoff JL, Rosenbauer RJ, Fournier RO (1996) The generation of HC1 in the system CaCl 2 -H 2 0: Vapor-liquid relations from 380-500 °C. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 60:7-16

44

Liebscher

Bischoff JL, Rosenbauer RJ, Pitzer KS (1986) The system NaCl-H 2 0: relations of vapour-liquid near the critical temperature of water and of vapour-liquid-halite from 300 to 500 °C. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 50:14371444 Blencoe JG, Naney MT, Anovitz LM (2001) The C0 2 -H 2 0 system: III. A new experimental method for determining liquid-vapor equilibria at high subcritical temperatures. Am Mineral 86:1100-1111 Bodnar RJ, Burnham CW, Sterner SM (1985) Synthetic fluid inclusions in natural quartz. III. Determination of phase equilibrium properties in the System H 2 0-NaCl to 1000 °C and 1500 bars. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 49:1861-1873 Bodnar RJ, Sterner SM (1985) Synthetic fluid inclusions in natural quartz. II. Application to PVT studies. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 49:1855-1859 Bodnar RJ, Sterner SM (1987) Synthetic fluid inclusions. In: Hydrothermal Experimental Techniques. Ulmer GC, Barnes HL (eds) Wiley, p 423-457 Chou I-M (1985) Phase relations in the system NaCl-KCl-H 2 0. Ill: Solubilities of halite in vapor-saturated liquids above 445 °C and redetermination of phase equilibrium properties in the system NaCl-H 2 0 to 1000 °C and 1500 bars. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 51:1965-1975 Crovetto R, Lvov SN, Wood RH (1993) Vapor pressures and densities of NaCl(aq) and KCl(aq) at temperature 623 K and CaCl2(aq) at the temperatures of 623 K and 643 K. J Chem Thermodyn 25:127-138 Driesner T, Geiger S (2007) Numerical simulation of multiphase fluid flow in hydrothermal systems. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:187-212 Driesner T, Heinrich CA (2007) The System H 2 0-NaCl. I. Correlation formulae for phase relations in pressuretemperature-composition space from 0 to 1000 °C, 0 to 5000 bar, and 0 to 1 XNaC1. Geochim Cosmochim Acta (accepted) Driesner T, Seward TM (2000) Experimental and simulation study of salt effects and pressure/density effects on oxygen and hydrogen stable isotope liquid-vapor fractionation for 4-5 molal aqueous NaCl and KCl solutions to 400 °C. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 64:1773-1784 Dubois M, Weisbrod A, Shtuka A (1994) Experimental determination of the two-phase (liquid and vapour) region in water-alkali chloride binary systems at 500° and 600 °C using synthetic fluid inclusions. Chem Geol 115:227-238 Ellis AJ, Golding RM (1963) The solubility of carbon dioxide above 100 °C in water and in sodium chloride solutions. Am J Sei 261:47-60 Foustoukos DI, James RH, Berndt ME, Seyfried Jr WE (2004) Lithium isotopic systematics of hydrothermal vent fluids at the Main Endeavour Field, Northern Juan de Fuca Ridge. Chem Geol 212:17-26 Foustoukos DI, Seyfried Jr. WE (2007) Fluid phase separation processes in submarine hydrothermal systems. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:213-239 Foustoukos DI, Seyfried Jr WE (2007b) Quartz solubility in the two-phase and critical region of the NaCl-KClH20 system: Implications for submarine hydrothermal vent systems at 9°50'N East Pacific Rise. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 71:186-201 Franck EU, Lentz H, Welsch H (1974) The system water-xenon at high pressures and temperatures. Z Phys Chem 93:95-108 Frantz JD, Popp RK, Hoering TC (1992) The compositional limits of fluid immiscibility in the system H20NaCl-C02 as determined with the use of synthetic fluid inclusions in conjunction with mass spectrometry. Chem Geol 98:237-255 Gehrig M (1980) Phasengleichgewichte und PVT-Daten ternärer Mischungen aus Wasser, Kohlendioxid und Natriumchlorid bis 3 kbar und 550 °C. PhD Dissertation, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany Gibert F, Guillaume D, Laporte D (1998) Importance of fluid immiscibility in the H 2 0-NaCl-C0 2 system and selective C0 2 entrament in granulites: experimental phase diagram at 5-7 kbar, 900 °C and wetting textures. Eur J Mineral 10:1097-1123 Gottschalk M (2007) Equations of state for complex fluids. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:49-97 Hack AC, Thompson AB, Aerts M (2007) Phase relations involving hydrous silicate melts, aqueous fluids, and minerals. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:129-185 Harvey JN, Levelt Sengers JMH (1989) On the NaCl-H 2 0 coexistence curve near the critical temperature of H 2 0. Chem Phys Lett 156:415-417 Heinrich CA (2007a) Fluid - fluid interactions in magmatic-hydrothermal ore formation. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:363-387 Heinrich W (2007b) Fluid immiscibility in metamorphic rocks. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:389-430 Holness MB, Graham CM (1991) Equilibrium dihedral angles in the system H 2 0-C0 2 -NaCl-calcite and implications for fluid flow during metamorphism. Contrib Mineral Petrol 108:368-383 Horita J, Cole DR, Wesolowski DJ (1995) The activity-composition relationship of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in aqueous salt solutions: III. Vapor-liquid water equilibration of NaCl solutions to 350 °C. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 59:1139-1151

Expérimental Studies in Model Fluid Systems

45

Hovey J K , Pitzer KS, Tanger IV JC, Bischoff JL, Rosenbauer R J (1990) Vapor-liquid phase equilibria of potassium chloride-water mixtures: Equation-of-state representation for KC1-H 2 0 and NaCl-H 2 0. J Phys Chem 94:1175-1179 Japas M L , Franck E U (1985) High pressure phase equilibria and PVT-data of the water-nitrogen system to 673 K and 2 5 0 MPa. Ber Bunsenges Phys Chem 89:793-800 Johnson E L (1991) Experimentally determined limits for H 2 0 - C 0 2 - N a C l immiscibility in granulites. Geology 19:925-928 Joyce D B , Holloway J R (1993) An experimental determination of the thermodynamic properties of H 2 0 - C 0 2 NaCl fluids at high pressures and temperatures. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 5 7 : 7 3 3 - 7 4 6 Kaszuba JP, Janecky DR, Snow M G (2005) Experimental evaluation of mixed fluid reactions between supercritical carbon dioxide and NaCl brine: Relevance to the integrity of a geologic carbon repository. Chem Geol 217:277-293 Kay W B , Rambosek G M (1953) Liquid-vapor equilibrium relations in binary systems. Ind Eng Chem 45:221-

226

Keevil N B (1942) Vapor pressures of aqueous solutions at high temperatures. J Am Chem Soc 64:841-850 Ketsko VA, Urusova MA, Valyashko V M (1984) Solubility and vapour pressure of solutions in the C a C l 2 - H 2 0 System at 2 5 0 - 4 0 0 °C. Russ J Inorg Chem 29:1398-1399, [translated from Zhurnal Neorganicheskoi Khimii 29:2443-2445, 1984] Khaibullin K, Borisov N M (1966) Experimental investigation of the thermal properties of aqueous and vapour solutions of sodium and potassium chloride at phase equilibrium. Teplofizika Vysokikh Temperatur 4:518523 [English translation 489-494] Knight CL, Bodnar R J (1989) Synthetic fluid inclusions: IX. Critical P V T X properties of N a C l - H 2 0 solutions. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 53:3-8 Kotel'nikov AR, Kotel'nikovaZA (1991) The phase state of the H 2 0 - C 0 2 - N a C l system examined from synthetic fluid inclusions in quartz. Geochem Intern 29:55-66, [translated from Geokhimiya 4:526-537, 1990] KraderT (1985) Phasengleichgewichte undkritische Kurven des ternaren Systems H 2 0-CH4-NaCl bis 2 5 0 MPa und 800 K. PhD Dissertation, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany Lamb W M , McShane CJ, Popp R K (2002) Phase relations in the CH 4 -H 2 0-NaCl system at 2 kbar, 3 0 0 to 6 0 0 °C as determined using synthetic fluid inclusions. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 6 6 : 3 9 7 1 - 3 9 8 6 Lamb W M , Popp RK, Boockoff L A (1996) The determination of phase relations in the CH 4 -H 2 0-NaCl system at 1 kbar, 4 0 0 to 6 0 0 °C using synthetic fluid inclusions. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 60:1885-1897 Liebscher A, Barnes J, Sharp Z (2006a) Liquid-vapor fractionation of the chlorine isotopes: Experimental calibration at 4 0 0 to 4 5 0 °C/23 to 42 MPa. Chem Geol 234:340-345 Liebscher A, Liiders V, Heinrich W, Schettler G (2006b) Br/CI signature of hydrothermal fluids: Liquid-vapor fractionation of bromine revisited. Geofluids 6:113-121 Liebscher A, Meixner A, Romer RL, Heinrich W (2005) Liquid-vapor fractionation of boron and boron isotopes: Experimental calibration at 4 0 0 °C/23 MPa to 4 5 0 °C/42 MPa. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 6 9 : 5 6 9 3 - 5 7 0 4 Liebscher A, Meixner A, Romer RL, Heinrich W (2007) Experimental calibration of the vapour-liquid phase relations and lithium isotope fractionation in the system H 2 0 - L i C l at 4 0 0 °C/20-28 MPa. Geofluids 7:1-7 Magenheim A J (1995) Oceanic borehole fluid chemistry and analysis of chlorine stable isotopes in silicate rocks. PhD Dissertation, University of California, San Diego, California Marshall WE, Jones E V (1974) Liquid-vapor critical temperatures of aqueous electrolyte solutions. J Inorg Nucl Chem 36:2313-2318 Nagaseki H, Hayashi K (2006) The effect of sulfur on the vapor-liquid distribution of Cu and Zn in boiling hydrothermal fluid by S R X R F microanalysis of fluid inclusions. International Mineralogical Association Conference, Kobe, Abstract K 1 0 4 - 0 0 6 Naumov V B , Khakimov AKH, Khodakovskiy IL (1974) Solubility of carbon dioxide in concentrated chloride solutions at high temperatures and pressures. Geochem Int 11:31-41 Oakes CS, Bodnar RJ, Simonson JM, Pitzer K S (1994) Critical and supercritical properties for 0.3 to 3.0 mol*kg _ 1 CaCl 2 (aq). Geochim Cosmochim Acta 58:2421-2431 Olander A, Liander H (1950) The phase diagram of sodium chloride and steam above the critical point. Acta Chem Scand 4:1437-1445 Pedersen K S , Christensen P (2007) Fluids in Hydrocarbon Basins. Rev Mineral Geochem 6 5 : 2 4 1 - 2 5 8 Petrenko GV, Malinin SD, Arutyunyan L A (1989) Solubility of heavy-metal sulfides in heterogenous chloride solution-vapor phase systems. Geochem Intern 28:101-105, [translated from Geokhimiya 6:882-887, 1989] Phillips J (1999) Chlorine isotopic composition of hydrothermal vent fluids from the Juan De Fuca Ridge. Master Thesis, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina Pitzer KS, Bischoff JL, Rosenbauer R J (1987) Critical behaviour of dilute NaCl in H 2 0 . Chem Phys Lett 134:60-63

46

Liebscher

Pitzer KS, Tanger JC (1989) Critical exponents for the coexistence curves for NaCl-H 2 0 near the critical temperature of H 2 0. Reply to comment by A.H. Harvey and J.M.H. Levelt Sengers. Chem Phys Lett 156:418-419 Plyasunova NV, Shmulovich KI (1991) Phase equilibria in the system H 2 0-C0 2 -CaCl 2 at 500 °C. Transactions USSR Acad Sei 320:221-225 Pokrovski GS, Borisova Y, Harrichoury JC (2006) The effect of sulfur on vapor-liquid partitioning of metals in hydrothermal systems: An experimental batch-reactor study. Abstr. Goldschmidt Conference, Geochim Cosmochim Acta 33(8):657-660 Pokrovski GS, Roux J, Harrichoury JC (2005) Fluid density control on vapor-liquid partitioning metals in hydrothermal systems. Geology 33:657-660 Pokrovski GS, Zakirov IV, Roux J, Testemale D, Hazemann JL, Bychkov AY, Golikova GV (2002) Experimental study of arsenic speciation in vapor phase to 500 °C: Implications for As transport and fractionation in lowdensity crustal fluids and volcanic gases. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 66:3453-3480 Roedder E (1984) Fluid Inclusions. Rev Mineral Vol 12, Mineralogical Society of America Rosenbauer RJ, Bischoff JL (1987) Pressure-composition relations for coexisting gases and liquids and the critical points in the system NaCl-H 2 0 at 450, 475, and 500 °C. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 51:23492354 Rowlinson JS, Swinton EL (1982) Liquids and Liquid Mixtures. Butterworth Schatz OJ, Dolejs D, Stix J, Williams-Jones AE, Layne GD (2004) Partitioning of boron among melt, brine and vapor in the system haplogranite-H 2 0-NaCl at 800 °C and 100 MPa. Chem Geol 210:135-147 Schmidt C, Bodnar RJ (2000) Synthetic fluid inclusions: XVI. PVTXproperties in the system H 2 0-NaCl-C0 2 at elevated temperatures, pressures, and salinities. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 64:3853-3869 Schmidt C, Rosso KM, Bodnar RJ (1995) Synthetic fluid inclusions: XIII. Experimental determination of PVT properties in the system H 2 0 + 40 wt.% NaCl + 5 mol.% C0 2 at elevated temperature and pressure. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 59:3953-3959 Schröer E (1927) Untersuchungen über den kritischen Zustand. I. Beitrag zur Kenntnis des kritischen Zustandes des Wassers und wässriger Lösungen. Z Phys Chem 129:79-110 Seitz JC, Blencoe JG (1997) Experimental determination of the volumetric properties and solvus relations of H 2 0-C0 2 mixtures at 300-400 °C and 75-1000 bars. Proc Fifth Intern Sym Hydro Reactions 109-112. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN Seitz JC, Blencoe JG, Joyce DB, Bodnar RJ (1994) Volumetric properties of CO r CH 4 -N 2 fluids at 200 °C and 1000 bars: A comparison of equations of state and experimental data. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 58:10651071 Seyfried WE, Janecky DR, Berndt ME (1987) Rocking autoclaves for hydrothermal experiments: II. The flexible reaction-cell system. In: Hydrothermal Experimental Techniques. Ulmer GC, Barnes HL (eds) Wiley, p 216-239. Shmonov VM, Sadus RJ, Franck EU (1993) High pressure and supercritical phase equilibria PVT-Data of the binary water + methane mixture to 723 K and 200 MPa. J Phys Chem 97:9054-9059 Shmulovich K, Heinrich W, Möller P, Dulski P (2002) Experimental determination of REE fractionation between liquid and vapour in the systems NaCl-H 2 0 and CaCl 2 -H 2 0 up to 450 °C. Contrib Mineral Petrol 144:257-273 Shmulovich KI, Graham CM (1999) An experimental study of phase equilibria in the system H 2 0-C0 2 -NaCl at 800 °C and 9 kbar. Contrib Mineral Petrol 136:247-257 Shmulovich KI, Graham CM (2004) An experimental study of phase equilibria in the systems H 2 0-C0 2 CaCl2 and H 2 0-C0 2 -NaCl at high pressures and temperatures (500-800 °C, 0.5-0.9 GPa): geological and geophysical applications. Contrib Mineral Petrol 146:450-462 Shmulovich KI, Kotova PP (1982) Mineral equilibria in a hot H 2 0-C0 2 -electrolyte fluid. Geokhimiya 10:14401453 Shmulovich KI, Landwehr D, Simon K, Heinrich W (1999) Stable isotope fractionation between liquid and vapour in water-salt systems up to 600 °C. Chem Geol 157:343-354 Shmulovich KI, Plyasunova NV (1993) Phase equilibria in ternary systems formed by H 2 0 and C0 2 with CaCl2 or NaCl at high T and P. Geochem Intern 30(12):53-71, [translated from Geokhimiya 5:666-684, 1993] Shmulovich KI, Tkachenko SI, Plyasunova NV (1995) Phase equilibria in fluid systems at high pressures and temperatures. In: Fluids in the Crust: Equilibrium and transport properties. Shmulovich KI, Yardley BWD, Gonchar GG (eds) Chapman & Hall, London, p 193-214 Simon AC, Frank MR, Pettke T, Candela PA, Picolli PM, Heinrich CA (2005) Gold partitioning in melt-vaporbrine systems. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 69:3321-3335 Sourirajan S, Kennedy GC (1962) The system H 2 0-NaCl at elevated temperatures and pressures. Am J Sei 260:115-141 SpivackAJ, Berndt ME, Seyfried Jr WE (1990) Boron isotope fractionation during supercritical phase separation. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 54:2337-2339

Expérimental

Studies in Model Fluid

Systems

47

Sterner SM, Bodnar RJ (1991) Synthetic fluid inclusions. X: Experimental determination of P-V-T-X properties in the C0 2 -H 2 0 system to 6 kb and 700 °C. Am J Sei 291:1-54 Takenouchi S, Kennedy GC (1964) The binary system H 2 0-C0 2 at high temperatures and pressures. Am J Sei 262:1055-1074 Takenouchi S, Kennedy GC (1965) The solubility of carbon dioxide in NaCl solutions at high temperatures and pressures. Am J Sei 263:445-454 Thompson AB, Aerts M, Hack AC (2007) Liquid immiscibility in silicate melts and related systems. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:99-127 Tkachenko SI, Shmulovich K (1992) Liquid-vapor equilibria in water-salt systems (NaCl, KCl, CaCl2, MgCl 2 ) at 400-600 °C. Dokl Akad SSSR 326:1055-1059 [in Russian] Tödheide K, FranckEU (1963) Das Zweiphasengebiet und die kritische Kurve im System Kohlendioxid-Wasser bis zu Drucken von 3500 bar. Z Phys Chem Neue Folge 37:387-401 Truesdell AH (1974) Oxygen isotope activities and concentrations in aqueous salt solutions at elevated temperatures: Consequences for isotope geochemistry. Earth Planet Sei Lett 23:387-396 Urusova MA (1974) Phase equilibria in the sodium hydroxide-water and sodium chloride-water systems at 350550 °C. Russ J Inorg Chem 19(3):450-454 [translated from Zhurnal Neorganicheskoi Khimii 19:828-833, 1974] Urusova MA (1975) Volume properties of aqueous solutions of sodium chloride at elevated temperatures and pressures. Russ J Inorg Chem 20:1717-1721 [translated from Zhurnal Neorganicheskoi Khimii 20:31033110, 1975] Urusova MA (1986) Vapour pressure in the SrCl 2 -H 2 0 system at temperatures above 250 °C. Russ J Inorg Chem 31:1104-1105 [translated from Zhurnal Neorganicheskoi Khimii 31:1916-1917, 1986] Urusova MA, Ravich MI (1971) Vapor pressure and solubility in the sodium chloride-water system at 350° and 400 °C. Russ J Inorg Chem 16 (10):1534 Urusova MA, Valyashko VM (1983) Solubility, vapour pressure, and thermodynamic properties of solutions in the MgCl 2 -H 2 0 system at 300-350 °C. Russ J Inorg Chem 28:1045-1048 [translated from Zhurnal Neorganicheskoi Khimii 28:1845-1849, 1983] Urusova MA, Valyashko VM (1984) Vapour pressure and thermodynamic properties of aqueous solutions of magnesium chloride at 250 °C. Russ JInorgChem29:1395-1396 [translated from Zhurnal Neorganicheskoi Khimii 29:2437-2439, 1984] Urusova MA, Valyashko VM (1987) The vapor pressure and the activity of water in concentrated aqueous solutions containing the chlorides of alkali metals (Li, K, Cs) and alkaline earth metals (Mg, Ca) at increased temperatures. Russ J Inorg Chem 32 (l):23-26 [translated from Zhurnal Neorganicheskoi Khimii 32:44-48, 1987] Vakulenko AG, Alekhin YuV, Rasina MV (1989) Solubility and thermodynamic properties of alkali chlorides in steam. Proc. II Intern. Sympos. 'Properties of water and steam', Praque, pp. 395-401 Valayashko VM, Urusova MA, Fogt V [Voigt W], Emons GG (1988) Properties of solutions in the MgCl 2 -H 2 0 system over wide temperature and concentration ranges. Russ J Inorg Chem 33:127-130 [translated from Zhurnal Neorganicheskoi Khimii 33:228-232, 1988] Valyashko VM, Urusova MA, Ketsko VA, Kravchuk KG (1987) Phase equilibria and thermodynamic properties of solutions in the MgCl 2 -H 2 0, CaCl 2 -H 2 0, SrCl 2 -H 2 0, and BaCl 2 -H 2 0 systems at elevated temperatures. Russ J Inorg Chem 32:1634-1639 [translated from Zhurnal Neorganicheskoi Khimii 32:2811-2819, 1987] Webster J, Mandeville C (2007) Fluid immiscibility in volcanic environments. Rev Mineral Geochem 65:313362 Welsch H (1973) Die Systeme Xenon-Wasser und Methan-Wasser bei hohen Drücken und Temperaturen. PhD Dissertation, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany Williams TJ, Candela PA, Piccoli PM (1995) The partitioning of copper between silicate melts and two-phase aqueous fluids: An experimental investigation at 1 kbar, 800 °C and 0.5 kbar, 850 °C. Contrib Mineral Petrol 121:388-399 Wood SA, Crerar DA, Brantley SL, Borcsik M (1984) Mean molal stoichiometric activity coefficients of alkali halides and related electrolytes in hydrothermal solutions. Am J Sei 284:668-705 Zarembo VI, Lvov SN, Matuzenko MYu (1980) Saturated vapor pressure of water and activity coefficients of calcium chloride in the CaCl 2 -H 2 0 system at 423-623 K. Geochem Int 17:159-162 Zhang Y-G, Frantz JD (1989) Experimental determination of the compositional limits of immiscibility in the system CaCl 2 -H 2 0-C0 2 at high temperatures and pressures using synthetic fluid inclusions. Chem Geol 74:289-308 Zhang Y-G, Frantz JD (1992) Hydrothermal reactions involving equilibrium between minerals and mixed volatiles: 2. Investigations of fluid properties in the C0 2 -CH 4 -H 2 0 system using synthetic fluid inclusions. Chem Geol 100:51-72

Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry Vol. 65, pp. 49-97, 2007 Copyright © Mineralogical Society of America

Equations of State for Complex Fluids Matthias Gottschalk Department 4: Chemistry of the Earth Section 4.1: Experimental Geochemistry and Mineral GeoFo rschungsZen trum Telegrafenberg 14473 Potsdam, Germany

Physics

gottschalk @ gfz-potsdam.de

INTRODUCTION Compositions of coexisting fluids at elevated pressure-temperature conditions can be calculated by applying thermodynamics as in any other chemical equilibrium. This calculation requires the evaluation of the thermodynamic properties of the phase components i at the respective pressure P, temperature T, and the individual abundances xt, i.e., composition. In comparison with solids, fluids normally have distinct PVT-behaviors. Furthermore, because of their disordered state and the relatively weak bonding between molecules, fluid species mix much more easily than solid-phase components. The evaluation of the thermodynamic properties of fluids requires, therefore, special treatment and procedures that differ significantly from those used for solids. For fluids, this treatment includes a distinct and different standard state than for solids and a special description of the volume V as a function of P, T (or P as a function of V and T) and xt, i.e., an equation of state (EOS).

PRINCIPLES For geological systems, which are usually defined by the variables P and T, the Gibbs free energy G is the function of choice to describe equilibria. At constant P and Tthe chemical equilibrium condition is defined by (the Table 1 lists the symbols used): dG = 0

(1)

The partial derivative of G with respect to P is the volume V dP

=V

(2)

Z>,

Therefore, the pressure-dependence of G is obtained by integration of Equation (2) with boundaries from the reference pressure Pn i.e., ambient pressure of 0.1 MPa, to the required P p

G ( p, r) =G ( p r , r) + JvaP

(3)

pr

For the practical treatment of mixed phases, G has to be replaced by its partial derivative with respect to composition, the chemical potential of the phase component i1 1

The term phase component is used as a synonym for a endmember of a solution, i.e., for fluids specific species or molecules, whereas the term component is used in the classic thermodynamical sense. 1529-6466/07/0065-0003$05.00

DOI: 10.2138/rmg.2007.65.3

50

Gottschalk

Table 1. Notation and symbols EOS sub- and

equation of state superscripts

m

r c

i

thermodynamic

pure phase hypothetical standard state of an ideal gas mixture reference conditions (P, = 0.1 MPa, T, = 298.15 K) critical property of phase component i variables and

properties

P T V, v

pressure temperature volume, molar volume

P NA A, a

molar density Avogadro's number

G,g H, h S, s U, u R a f

Helmholtz free energy, molar Helmholtz free energy Gibbs free energy, molar Gibbs free energy enthalpy, molar enthalpy entropy, molar entropy internal energy, molar internal energy gas constant activity fugacity

n nT

mole fraction number of moles total number of moles

z

compressibility factor

673 K), no explicit pressure and temperature limit is provided but according to Saxena and Fei (1987), the EOS is valid for crustal conditions. The properties of the pure phase components and those of the mixture are calculated separately. The pure components are treated with a virial EOS which uses the reduced pressure Pr = P/Pc as the variable (Saxena and Fei 1987), 7—4' + R' P + Tc ' P 2 ^ (Tr ) (Tr ) r (Tr ) r

(86)

in which the parameters A', B', and C' are functions of the reduced temperature Tr = T/Tc. Pc and Tc are the critical pressure and temperature for each pure phase component. For non-polar molecules the mixture properties are calculated using a Kihara potential, for r 2a

which is similar to the Lennard-Jones potential described previously, but does not theoretically allow complete penetration of the molecules. The parameter 2a is the spherical molecular core diameter which describes the maximum penetration depth. For interactions with involvement of polar molecules, a Stockmayer potential is used r

(,)=4e

-^F(e

r

1

,e

2

,e

3

(88)

)

The Stockmayer potential is a modified Lennard-Jones potential which considers the direction (91,02,03) dependent dipole-dipole interactions and includes the dipole moment jo, of the polar species. The mixing rules for the pure non-polar and pure polar interactions are: 1,

l, G•J=— G. +G •'

\ 1/2 V V ' J)

1/2

For a pair of polar (?) and non-polar (/') molecules, the following relation is used:

a,.,.

1+ -

n1/2

3 3 4 a JJ . (V e .B . GBI .f

in which a is the polarizability of the non-polar molecule.

1/6

(90)

Gottschalk

66

The calculated mixing properties for each binary system are expressed by a van Laar equation using a binary interaction parameter Wy and the molar volumes of the pure phase components vk°, nT1W;;X i] i:XJ;V°V; i J

¡-^excess

(v; + vj)[xivi

+ x

jvj)

which in turn can be combined to ternary and higher systems. Because the calculated energies are two-body interactions, ternary and higher parameters are neglected. Appropriate differentiation in respect to nt yields the required expressions for the activity constants. Shi and Saxena (1992) Phase components: H20, C02, CH4, CO, 02, H2, S2, S02, COS, H2S. Applicable range given by the authors: up to 2500 K, up to 2 GPa. The calculation of the pure and mixed fluid properties is, with slight modifications, identical to Saxena and Fei (1987, 1988) described above. For pure C0 2 , CH 4 , CO, 0 2 , H 2 , S 2 , S0 2 , COS, and H 2 S a virial equation of the type z = A'(Jr) + B'(Jr)Pr + C'(Jr)Pf + D'(Jr)Pr3

(92)

is used, in which the parameters A', B', C', and D' are functions of Tr. The chosen functional dependence for each parameter is Q(T) = Qy + Q2T:l + Q3Tr3/2 + Q4T;3 + Q5T:4

(93)

for P < 100 MPa and Q(J) = a + Q2Tr + Q,Tr-1 + Q4Tr2 + Q5T;2 + Q6Tr3 + Q^f

+ Qs In Tr

(94)

or P > 100 MPa. The properties of H 2 0 are calculated using the EOS of Saul and Wagner (1989). The properties of the fluid mixtures are calculated with the approach given by Saxena and Fei (1988), as described above. Belonoshko and Saxena (1992c), Belonoshko et al. (1992) Phase components: H20, C02, CH4, CO, 02, H2, S2, S02, COS, H2S, N2, NH3, Ar. Applicable range given by the authors: up to 2273 Kfor 100 MPa, 3273 Kfor 500 MPa, 4000 Kfor up to 100 GPa, lower pressure limit 500 MPa. This EOS is based on publications of Belonoshko and Saxena (1992a,b) and does not fit into the pattern outlined in the beginning of this chapter. It is based on intermolecular potentials such as the integrated EOS, but uses results from molecular dynamical simulations as input instead. The intermolecular potential applied is of the a-Exp-6 type which is also sometimes referred to as a modified Buckingham potential, \ r

(r)

= a-6

£

6exp

1 - -

V

V

rmm .

/ -a

r

\6 A (95)

J J

where e is the minimum potential energy at the intermolecular separation rmin, and a determines the steepness of the repulsion wall. By applying this potential in molecular dynamical simulations large sets of PVT data were generated which were then in turn fitted to the following term which looks in part like a virial equation,

67

Equations of State for Complex Fluids

P„ =

A

B F C - + —r + —r +

(l + D ( a - 1 2 . 7 5 ) + £ ( a - 1 2 . 7 5 ) 2 j

(96)

where P.-*-.

V . - * J. o

e

T..S-. e

(97)

2'

and A, B, C, D, E, F, and G are either functions of only Tr or Tr and Vr, k is the Boltzmann constant and o is the collision diameter, the distance at which the potential T is 0. The applied mixing rules for e and a are related to the Equations (61), (62), and (67), whereas the combining rule for the collision diameter o is like Equation (69) G

\l/3

II • j

=

(98)

X X

i Pij

X I v m (99)

£= -

XX'

a =-

(100)

II ¥M

with: /

£

xl/2

\l/2

V=[££j)

(101)

'

According to the authors, the rather high lower boundary pressure of validity (500 MPa at 400 K) is related to the use of the a-Exp-6 type potential. As a consequence for the evaluation of the fugacity coefficients using Equation (14), the integral must be split into a low and a high V part. For volumes corresponding to pressures below 500 MPa another but valid EOS has to be used to obtain satisfactory accuracies for (p™. For the application of this EOS and that of Shi and Saxena (1992), the authors provide a program called SUPERFLUID (Belonoshko et al. 1992). Duan et al. (1992c, 1996) Phase components: H20, C02, CH4, CO, 02, H2, Cl2, H2S, N2. Applicable range given by the authors: up to 2800 K, up to 30 GPa. In Duan et al. (1996) the EOS presented by Duan et al. (1992c) forpure phase components is extended to fluid mixtures. The EOS is a virial equation P fV _

re/

B

C

D

E

F

Vref

V * ref

Vref

V ref

Vref

f ref

|

l +-

v.ref

exp

V.ref

(102)

n RT

T ref

in which Pref, Vref, and Tref are defined as follows: Pref =

ZrefCjP e ; a ref

vlefV c>;

T = 1 ref

ZrefT

(103)

Gottschalk

68

The parameters e and o are those of the Lennard-Jones potential. The index ref signifies the pure reference fluid CH4 for which the parameters B, C, D, E, F, and y were determined and the index i stands for any pure fluid for which the EOS is intended to be valid. Except for y, these parameters are functions of Tref. For mixtures, the following mixing and combining rules are used: e

=X X

AA k

.. ( e i e ; T > ° = X X

A A k

:..

Ku= i.

Ku=1

d°4)

Here the mixing parameters k l t j and k2,y are treated as constants and have been fitted using experimental results. Duan et al. (2000) checked the validity of this EOS for H 2 0, C0 2 , CH 4 , N 2 mixtures by comparing the calculated properties to experimental results and to other EOS with favorable results. Duan et al. (1992a,b) Phase components: H20, C02, CH4. Applicable range given by the authors: up to 1273 K, up to 300 MPa. The EOS used is very similar to the approach taken by Duan et al. (1992c, 1996) 5V. z= l+V

CV 2 z

v

DV?

EV?

FVj

V4

V3

V2

p + V42

exp

yYl

(105)

V2

v y and differs in the additional parameter [3, and the replacement of the Lennard-Jones parameters by the critical properties of the pure phase components and uses reduced properties instead: I>=-

V. =

v_

(106)

T. =-

Accordingly the parameters B, C, D, E, F are functions of the reduced temperature Tr and the parameters [3 and y are constants. Different from the approach above is the treatment of the mixing and combining rules. Mixing requires the calculation of the cross terms for the parameters B, C, D, E, F, and y and also one for the critical volume Vc. However, whereas Vc for a pure phase component has a physical meaning, for a mixture it does not. Mixing rules according to Equations (56) to (58) and cross terms for each term in Equation (105), are listed below: BmkymkC = Y/ fyS f x.x.B.V I J IJ Cy \3

B

,=

(107)

yl/3 + yl/3 \3 (108)

Ku= i

K,ij> Vc ~

(109)

ijk

c f + c f + cf

Cijk ~

V k

2.iii = 1'

\3 ^'c,ijk

y l / 3 + y l / 3 + y l / 3 \3 c,i c,j c,k

(HO)

/ k

2.ijj = _

(in)

k

2.ikk ~ k2.iik>k2.jkk ~ k2.jjk •j-ytnix 4 X X X X j k l rnDijkbiycc,ijklm

/ ymix

(112)

1

Equations of State for Complex Fluids Df

Dijklm =

T

J

~

D f

+

D f

+

D f

+

D f

\3 (113)

yi/3+yi/3+yi/3+yi/3+yi/3 c,i c,j c,k c,I c,m

y ijklm mix v" I 7 mix

+

69

i j k I m n

(114)

5 jXkXlXmXn^ijklmn^ccjjklmn

(115)

£1/3 + £1/3 + £ l/3 + £ l/3 + E l ß + £ l/3 \3 m n

ijklm

vc,ijklmn=

(116)

y 1/3 y 1/3 y 1/3 y 1/3 y 1/3 y 1/3 \3 c,l c,m c,n

(117)

j^mix / ymix 1

(118)

\3

yl/3 + yl/3 \3 (119) (120)

i .,mix I / mtr V" ='L'L'LxixjxkJijkvl

(121)

T

kì.ìjk ~ 1 f ° r ' ~ J ~

yf+yf+yf

x 3

k3 ijj - k3Mj,

k3 iii - k3Ui,

(122) n.3 jkk -

jjk

(123)

A program to calculate the fluid properties using this EOS has been published by Nieva and Barragan (2003). Duan and Zhang (2006) Phase components: H20, C02. Applicable range given by the authors: up to 2573 K, up to 10 GPa. An identical EOS to the one described above (Duan et al. 1992a,b) is used and the parameters calibrated to experimental results and volumes derived from molecular simulations. Anderko and Pitzer (1993a,b), Duan et al. (1995) Phase components: H20, NaCl, KCl and H20, NaCl, C02. Applicable range given by the authors: between 773 and up to 1200 K and below 500 MPafor the system containing H20, C02, and NaCl. If KCl is considered as a phase component, maximum temperature is 973 K. Anderko and Pitzer (1993a) implemented a reasonable successful EOS for H 2 0-NaCl mixtures. Anderko and Pitzer (1993b) added the phase component KCl, and later Duan et

70

Gottschalk

al. (1995) adapted C 0 2 to the base system H 2 0-NaCl 6 . NaCl as well as KC1 are treated as undissociated species. The foundation of this EOS is an integrated formulation of the Helmholtz free energy and adds a hard-sphere, dipole-dipole interaction and a perturbation term to the ideal gas properties: ^

j^deal j^hs ^dip-dip j^per

(124)

On a molar basis, the hard-sphere contribution is calculated according to Equation (73) which is derived for mixtures: ahs

Ahs

RT

nTRT

IDE F

|

l-y

F

| F

(I"?)

- - 1

ln(l-30

(125)

The definitions for y, D, E, and F are from Equations (44), (71), and (72). The dipole-dipole interaction term uses a [0,1] Padé approximation £7dip-dip /iA dip-dip RT

TRT

A, 1 -A3/A2

(126)

The required terms in Equation (126) are calculated according to the following equations: 4mm 1)1). (127) D ¡=1 j=i ij with:

y,]

\3

bf+bf

b-

(128)

4v

and: a

2Q m m m bb b 3 ^ yI l l ^ y t , b i=1 j=i k=1 ifikbjk

ylktâtffilhw)

(129)

with:

% :

In Equations (127) and (129)

bijk

{bijbikb].t)

4v

4v

1/3

(130)

is the reduced dipole moment, / =

2 A1/2 m o^r

(131)

and the functions /2(T)) and I3(V[) are integrals over pair and triple distribution functions and depend on T): (132)

6

There seems to be some frustration in the community and practical implementations of this EOS are scarce. Because of a few typing errors in the required constants, but mainly resulting from some confusion in the presented derivatives many programming efforts failed. In Appendix B, a complete set of constants and required equations is provided.

Equations

Fluids

71

a + acb + -adb~ aeb — +4v~ 16vJ 64 v'

(133)

of State for Complex

The perturbation term is a virial expansion of the form:

RT

Aper

1

nTRT

RT

In this equation, the quantities a, acb, adb2, and aeb3 are related to the second, third, fourth, and fifth virial coefficients, respectively. Accordingly, the second virial coefficient is a quadratic function of composition, the third a cubic, and so on. Besides the co-volume b relevant for 2, 3, 4, and 5 body interactions, the respective quantities involve mixing parameters characteristic for each considered binary join, which in turn are functions of T. Using this EOS binary and ternary fluid phase equilibria can be successfully calculated. Figure 3 shows an example that illustrates the phase relationships in the system H 2 0- C0 2 NaCl as a function of P and T. In Heinrich (2007) further isothermal-isobaric phase equilibria are presented.

400

600

800

1000

Temperature [°C] Figure 3. Phase relationships in the system H 2 0 - C 0 2 - N a C l as function of P and T. The ternary phase boundaries, including the tie lines connecting coexisting fluids, are calculated using the EOS by Duan et al. ( 1995). [Used by permission of Springer, from Heinrich et al. (2004), Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 148, Fig. 1, p. 133.]

Gottschalk

72 Duan et al. (2003)

Phase components: H20, CH4, NaCl and H20, C02, CH4, NaCl. Applicable range given by the authors: 573 to 1300 K, up to 500 MPa. The approach used by Anderko and Pitzer (1993a) and later taken up by Duan et al. (1995) has been augmented in this publication further by the phase component CH4. Jiang and Pitzer (1996), Duan et al. (2006) Phase components: H20, CaCl2 and H20, MgCl2. Applicable range given by the authors: 523 to 973 K, up to 150 MPa. Jiang and Pitzer (1996) presented an EOS for the system H 2 0-CaCl 2 and Duan et al. (2006) for the systems H 2 0-CaCl 2 and H 2 0-MgCl 2 , which are based on the approach taken by Anderko and Pitzer (1993a), except that dipole-quadrupole and quadrupole-quadrupole interactions were additionally taken into account. The respective Helmholtz free energy is then: ^

j^ideal j^hs ^dip-dip ^dip-quad ^quad-quad ^ /'cr

(134)

Churakov and Gottschalk (2003a,b) Phase components: H20, C02, CH4, CO, H2, 02, N2, Ar, He, Ne and 88 other organic and inorganic phase components. Applicable range given by the authors: at least 2000 K and up tolO GPa. This EOS is based on perturbation theory and uses the following expression for the Helmholtz free energy, ^

^ideai ^ II ^ ^dip—dip j^ind—dip

^|

which considers expressions derived from intermolecular potentials according to the LennardJones, dipole-dipole and induced dipole-dipole interaction. Au is split into terms for the hardsphere, high temperature and random phase approximation (see also Shmulovich et al. 1982) A u = Ahs + Ahta + A17"1

(136)

dip dip

As in Anderko and Pitzer (1993a), for A ~ , a [0,1] Pade approximation is used. ^dip-dip

dip-dip A ™2 I | ^dip-dip j^dip-dip j

(137)

with: =

3 kT

1471 A:-3dip-dip _ 32ti Nap 135(/fer) v 5

(138)

i=i j=\ 1/2 m

m m lifafol X X X . v . v , ^ ! ^ .

(139)

and: ^d-dip

=

m m -iKNlvYlxi*, i=i j=i

ry

1

II

ry

2

\

a

i i

1

2

J,

(WO)

ij

Here NA is the Avogadro's number, the dipole moment and a ; the polarizability of the molecule i, k the Boltzmann constant, and Jy and Kijk are the integrals over pair and triple distribution functions of the reference Lennard-Jones fluid. For the Equations (138) to (140), the following

Equations of State for Complex Fluids

73

combining rules are applied: 1/2

(141)

The mixing rules for the Lennard-Jones contributions are: m

m

=XX 1=1

e

mk

=

(142)

a a

j=l

2 mm " I - X X VA V G ®mix i=1 ;=1

(143)

a

Figure 4 shows calculated fluid-vapor phase equilibria using this EOS for the system H 2 0 Xe, H 2 0-CH 4 and H 2 0 - C 0 2 in the range between 523-633 K and 0-300 MPa and compares them to interpolated experimental results. For the polar - non-polar systems H 2 0-Xe and H 2 0 CH 4 , the calculated and the experimental results are in good agreement despite using parameters only for pure phase components. Larger deviations are observed for the system H 2 0 - C 0 2 , which results from the fact that the EOS does not treat dipole-quadrupole interactions, an important type of interaction in this system. In Figure 5, equilibria of coexisting fluids in the systems H 2 0-N 2 , H 2 0-Ar, and H 2 0 - CH 4 are plotted for pressures up to 6 GPa and shows that considerable ranges of fluid unmixing is predicted in these systems. Whereas with this EOS, the quality of the calculated properties for the smaller molecules is very good, because of the involvement of only three constants (e, o, jo, or a ) for each phase component, for complicated molecules these have to be evaluated carefully before being applied.

CALCULATION OF PHASE EQUILIBRIA For the compositional evaluation of coexisting fluids the respective phase equilibria have to be calculated. Generally the equilibrium conditions are, that for all phase components the chemical potentials have to be constant at P and T in all coexisting phases: (144) For binary systems, this is relatively easily accomplished by solving two equations simultaneously. For ternary and higher systems, numerical and practical problems become evident and equilibrium calculations are increasingly difficult. A better approach and the method of choice is the minimization of the Gibbs free energy. This method is also able to handle saturated solids, i.e., change of fluid bulk compositions can be treated. The development of minimization algorithms is, however, an art itself. Such programs are mostly proprietary to specific scientific groups or available only commercially. Even if such programs are obtained, it is hard if not impossible to adapt them, so that the required EOS can be applied with it. However, a promising minimization approach is that of Karpov et al. (1997), which can be programmed, at least in principle, just using the equations provided in the publication 7 .

CONCLUSIONS Numerous equations of state are available for mixtures of non-polar and polar fluids, mainly for crustal P and T conditions. For the calculation of fluid equilibria in the mantle 7

A free but compiled implementation can be found and downloaded from GEMS-PSI/.

http://les.web.psi.ch/Software/

74

Gottschalk

Equations of State for Complex Fluids

75

even f o r relatively low T c o n d i t i o n s in s u b d u c t i n g slabs, the situation b e c o m e s m u c h less c o m f o r t a b l e . M i s s i n g are especially E O S at such c o n d i t i o n s w h i c h treat salts such as N a C l , KC1, and C a C l 2 as p h a s e c o m p o n e n t s . F u r t h e r m o r e , all the E O S described above treat these salts as u n d i s s o c i a t e d species, w h i c h very p r o b a b l y d o e s not describe the real situation. E O S h a n d l i n g total or partially dissociated b r i n e s at h i g h P and TMo not exist to m y k n o w l e d g e . A t elevated conditions the d i f f e r e n c e s b e t w e e n fluids and melts vanish (see H a c k et al. 2007). Fluids and melts b e c o m e indistinguishable. T h u s all m a j o r elements b e c o m e p h a s e c o m p o n e n t s in fluids. A n ultimate E O S should h a n d l e these. Since the last review in this series b y Ferry and B a u m g a r t n e r (1987) c o n c e r n i n g E O S for fluids, the f o c u s h a s b e e n shifted f r o m deriving E O S by fitting p a r a m e t e r s to experimental results to E O S w h i c h consider intermolecular interactions directly. T h e last a p p r o a c h e s s e e m s to b e p r o m i s i n g and with f u r t h e r increase in available c o m p u t e r p o w e r m o r e E O S applicable to p r o b l e m s in g e o s c i e n c e s can b e expected.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I w o u l d like to t h a n k A n a t o l y B e l o n o s h k o , Christian S c h m i d t , and Barrie C l a r k e for their r e v i e w s and e f f o r t s to e n h a n c e the m a n u s c r i p t . I also like to t h a n k A x e l L i e b s c h e r for h i s p a t i e n c e and f o r not p u s h i n g too h a r d .

REFERENCES Abbott MM (1979) Cubic equations of state: an interpretive review. Adv Chem Ser 182:47-70 Anderko A (1990) Equation of state methods for the modelling of phase equilibria. Fluid Phase Equilibria 61:145-225 Anderko A (2000) Cubic and generalized van der Waals equations. In: Equations of State for Fluids and Fluid Mixtures. Sengers JV, Kayser RF, Peters CJ, White HJ Jr (eds) Elsevier, p 75-126 Anderko A, Pitzer KS (1993a) Equation-of-state representation of phase equilibria and volumetric properties of the system NaCl-H 2 0 above 573 K. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 57:1657-1680 Anderko A, Pitzer KS (1993b) Phase equilibria and volumetric properties of the systems KC1-H20 and NaClKC1-H20 above 573 K: equation of state representation. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 57:4885-4897 Anderson G (2005) Thermodynamic of Natural Systems. Cambridge University Press Anderson GM, Crerar DA (1993) Thermodynamics in Geochemistry. Oxford University Press Bakker RJ (1999) Adaptation of the Bowers and Helgeson (1983) equation of state to the H 2 0-C0 2 -CH 4 -N 2 NaCl system. Chem Geol 154:225-236 Beattie JA (1930) A rational basis for the thermodynamic treatment of real gases and mixtures of real gases. Phys Rev 36:132-143 Beattie JA (1949) The computation of the thermodynamic properties of real gases and mixtures of real gases. Phys Rev 44:141-191 Beattie JA (1955) Thermodynamic properties of real gases and mixtures of real gases. In: Thermodynamics and Physics of Matter. Vol 1. Rossini FD (ed) Princeton University Press, p 240-337 Beattie JA, Stockmayer WH (1951) The thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of real gases. In: A Treatise on Physical Chemistry. Vol 2. Taylor HS, Glasstone S (eds) D. van Nostrand, p 187-352 Belonoshko AB, Saxena S (1992a) A molecular dynamics study of the pressure-volume-temperature properties of supercritical fluids: I H 2 0. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 55:381-387 Belonoshko AB, Saxena S (1992b) A molecular dynamics study of the pressure-volume-temperature properties of supercritical fluids: II C0 2 , CH4, CO, 0 2 , and H2. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 55:3191-3208 Belonoshko AB, Saxena S (1992c) A unified equation of state for fluids of C-H-O-N-S-Ar composition and their mixtures up to high temperatures and pressures. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 56:3611-3636 Belonoshko AB, Shi P, Saxena SK (1992) SUPERFLUID: a FORTRAN-77 program for calculation of Gibbs free energy and volume of C-H-O-N-S-Ar mixtures. Computers Geosci 18:1267-1269 BoublikT (1970) Hard-sphere equation of state. J Chem Phys 53:471-472 Boublik T (2000) Perturbation theory. In: Equations of State for Fluids and Fluid Mixtures. Sengers JV, Kayser RF, Peters CJ, White HJ Jr (eds) Elsevier, p 127-168 Bowers TS, Helgeson HC (1983) Calculation of the thermodynamic and geochemical consequences of nonideal mixing in the system HjO-COj-NaCl on phase relations in geologic systems: Equation of state for HjOCOj-NaCl fluids at high pressures temperatures. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 47:1247-1275

76

Gottschalk

Bowers TS, Helgeson HC (1985) Fortran programs for generating inclusion isochores and fugacity coefficients for the system H j O - C O j - N a C l at high pressures and temperatures. Computers Geosci 111 :203-213 Carnahan NF, Starling K E (1969) Equation of state for non-attracting rigid spheres. J Chem Phys 51:635-636 Churakov S S , Gottschalk M (2003a) Perturbation theory based equation of state for polar molecular fluids: I. Pure fluids. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 67:2397-2414 Churakov S S , Gottschalk M (2003b) Perturbation theory based equation of state for polar molecular fluids: II. Fluid mixtures. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 6 7 : 2 4 1 5 - 2 4 2 5 De Sands R, Breedveld GJF, Prausnitz J M (1974) Thermodynamic properties of aqueous das mixtures at advanced pressures. Ind Eng Chem Proc Design Dev 13:374-377 Duan Z, Zhang Z (2006) Equation of state of the H 2 0 , C 0 2 , and H 2 0 - C 0 2 systems up to 10 GPa and 2573.15 K: molecular simulations with ab initio potential surface. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 70:2311-2324 Duan Z, M0ller N, Weare JH (1992a) An equation of state for the C H 4 - C 0 2 - H 2 0 system: I. Pure systems from 0 to 1000 °C and 0 to 8000 bar. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 56:2605-2617 Duan Z, M0ller N, Weare JH (1992b) An equation of state for the C H 4 - C 0 2 - H 2 0 system: II. Mixtures from 5 0 to 1000 °C and 0 to 1000 bar. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 56:2619-2631 Duan Z, M0ller N, Weare JH (1992c) Molecular dynamics simulation of P V T properties of geological fluids and a general equation of state of nonpolar and weakly polar gases up to 2 0 0 0 K and 2 0 0 0 0 bar. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 5 6 : 3 8 3 9 - 3 8 4 5 Duan Z, M0ller N, Weare JH (1995) Equation of state for the N a C l - H 2 0 - C 0 2 system: prediction of phase equilibria and volumetric properties. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 59:2869-2882 Duan Z, M0ller N, Weare JH (1996) A general equation of state for supercritical fluid mixtures and molecular dynamics simulation of mixture P V T X properties. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 6 0 : 1 2 0 9 - 1 2 1 6 Duan Z, M0ller N, Weare JH (2000) Accurate prediction of the thermodynamic properties of fluids in the system H 2 0 - C 0 2 - C H 4 - N 2 up to 2000 K and 100 kbar from a corresponding states/one fluid equation of state. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 64:1069-1075 Duan Z, M0ller N, Weare JH (2003) Equations of state for the NaCl-H 2 0-CH 4 system and the NaCl-H 2 0C 0 2 - C H 4 system; phase equilibria and volumetric properties above 573 K. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 67:671-680 Duan Z, M0ller N, Weare JH (2006) A high temperature equation of state for the H 2 0 - C a C l 2 and H 2 0 - M g C l 2 systems. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 70:3765-3777 Ferry JM, Baumgartner L (1987) Thermodynamic models of molecular fluids at the elevated pressures and temperatures of crustal metamorphism. Rev Mineral 17:323-366 Flowers GC (1979) Correction of Holloway's (1977) adaptation of the modified Redlich-Kwong equation of state for calculation of the fugacities of molecular species in supercritical fluids of geologic interest. Contrib Mineral Petrol 69:315-318 Franck EU, Lentz H, Welsch H (1974) The system water-xenon at high pressures and temperatures. Z Phys Chem N F 93:95-108 Gillespie L J (1925) Equilibrium pressures of individual gases in mixtures and the mass-action law for gases. J Chem Soc 47:305-312 Gillespie L J (1936) Methods for the thermodynamic correlation of high pressure gas equilibria with the properties of pure gases. Chem Rev 18:359-371 Grevel K - D (1993) Modified Redlich-Kwong equations of state for CH 4 and C H 4 - H 2 0 fluid mixtures. N J b Mineral M 1993:462-480 Grevel K-D, Chatterjee ND (1992) A modified Redlich-Kwong equation of state for H 2 - H 2 0 fluid mixtures at high pressures and at temperatures above 4 0 0 °C. Eur J Mineral 4 : 1 3 0 3 - 1 3 1 0 Hack AC, Thompson AB, Aerts M (2007) Phase relations involving hydrous silicate melts, aqueous fluids, and minerals. Rev Mineral Geochem 6 5 : 1 2 9 - 1 8 5 Halbach H, Chatterjee ND (1982) An empirical Redlich-Kwong-type equation of state for water to 1000 °C and 2 0 0 kbar. Contrib Mineral Petrol 79:337-345 Heinrich W (2007) Fluid immiscibility in metamorphic rocks. Rev Mineral Geochem 6 5 : 3 8 9 - 4 3 0 Heinrich W, Churakov SS, Gottschalk M (2004) Mineral-fluid equilibria in the system C a 0 - M g 0 - S i 0 2 - H 2 0 C 0 2 - N a C l and the record of reactive flow in contact metamorphic aureoles. Contrib Mineral Petrol 148:131-144 Holloway J R (1976) Fugacity and activity of molecular species in supercritical fluids. In: Thermodynamics in Geology. Fraser D G (ed) D. Reidel Publishing Company, p 161-181 Holloway J R (1981) Compositions and volumes of supercritical fluids in the Earth's crust. In: Short Course in Fluid Inclusions: Fluid Inclusions: Petrologic Applications. Vol 6. Hollister L S , Crawford M L (eds) Mineralogical Association of Canada, p 13-38 Jacobs GK, Kerrick D M (1981a) A P L and F O R T R A N programs for a new equation of state for H 2 0 , C 0 2 and their mixtures at supercritical conditions. Computers Geosci 7:131-143 Jacobs GK, Kerrick D M (1981b) Methane: An equation of state with application to the ternary system HjOC 0 2 - C H 4 . Geochim Cosmochim Acta 45:607-614

Equations of State for Complex Fluids

77

Jiang S, Pitzer K S (1996) Phase equilibria and volumetric properties of aqueous CaCl 2 by an equation of state. AIChE J 4 2 : 5 8 5 - 5 9 4 Karpov IK, Chudnenko KV, Kulik DA (1997) Modeling chemical mass transfer in geochemical processes: Thermodynamic relations, conditions of equilibria, and numeric algorithms. Am J Sei 2 9 7 : 7 6 7 - 8 0 6 Kerrick DM, Jacobs G K (1981) A modified Redlich-Kwong equation for H 2 0 , C 0 2 , and H 2 0 - C 0 2 mixtures at elevated pressures and temperatures. Am J Sei 281:735-767 Mansoori GA, Carnahan NF, Starling KE, Leland T W (1971) Equilibrium thermodynamic properties of the mixture of hared spheres. J Chem Phys 54:1523-1525 Matteoli E, Hamad EZ, Mansoori G A (2000) Mixtures of dissimilar molecules. In: Equations of State for Fluids and Fluid Mixtures. Sengers JV, Kayser RF, Peters CJ, White HJ Jr (eds) Elsevier, p 3 5 9 - 3 8 0 Nieva D, Barragan R M (2003) HCO-TERNARY: A F O R T R A N code for calculating P-V-T-X properties and liquid vapor equilibria of fluids in the system H 2 0 - C 0 2 - C H 4 . Computers Geosci 29:469-485 Nordstrom DK, Munoz J L (1994) Geochemical Thermodynamics. Blackwell Scientific Publications Pedersen K S , Christensen P (2007) Fluids in hydrocarbon basins. Rev Mineral Geochem 6 5 : 2 4 1 - 2 5 8 Peng DY, Robinson D B (1976) A new two-constant equation of state. Ind Eng Chem Fundam 15:59-64 Poling B E , Prausnitz JM, O'Connell J P (2000) Properties of Gases and Liquids. McGraw-Hill Professional Prausnitz JM, Lichtenthaler RN, Gomes de Azevedo E (1999) Molecular Thermodynamics of Fluid-Phase Equilibria. Prentice-Hall Redlich O, Kwong JNS (1949) On the thermodynamics of solutions. V. An equation of state. Fugacities of gaseous solutions. Chem Rev 44:233-244 Rimbach H, Chatterjee ND (1987) Equations of state for H 2 , H 2 0 , and H 2 - H 2 0 fluid mixtures at temperatures above 0.01 °C and at high pressures. Phys Chem Mineral 14:560-569 Sandler SI (1994) Models for Thermodynamic and Phase Equilibria Calculations. Chemical Industries. Vol. 52. Marcel Dekker Inc. Sandler SI, Orbey H (2000) Mixing and combining rules. In: Equations of State for Fluids and Fluid Mixtures. Sengers JV, Kayser RF, Peters CJ, White HJ Jr (eds) Elsevier, p 321-357 Saul A, Wagner W (1989) A fundamental equation of state for water covering the range from the melting line to 1273 K a pressures up to 25,000 MPa. J Phys Chem Ref Data 18:1537-1564 Saxena SK, Fei Y (1987) Fluids at crustal pressures and temperatures. I. Pure species. Contrib Mineral Petrol 95:370-375 Saxena SK, Fei Y (1988) Fluid mixtures in the C-H-O system at high pressure and temperature. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 52:505-512 Schmidt RW, Wagner W (1984) A new form of the equation of state for pure substances and its application to oxygen. Fluid Phase Equilibria 19:175-200 Sengers JV, Kayser RF, Peters CJ, White HJ Jr (eds) (2000) Equations of State for Fluids and Fluid Mixtures. Experimental Thermodynamics. Elsevier Setzmann U, Wagner W (1991) A new equation of state and tables of thermodynamic properties for methane covering the range from the melting line to 625 K at pressures up to 1000 MPa. J Phys Chem R e f Data 20:1061-1155 Shi P, Saxena, S K (1992) Thermodynamic modeling of the C-H-O-S fluid system. Am Mineral 7 7 : 1 0 3 8 - 1 0 4 9 Shmonov VM, Sadus RJ, Franck E U (1993) High pressure and supercritical phase equilibria PVT-data of the binary water + methane mixture to 723 K and 2 0 0 MPa. J Phys Chem 97:9054-9059 Shmulovich KI, Tereshchenko YN, Kalinichev AG (1982) The Equation of state and isochors for nonpolar gases up to 2 0 0 0 K and 10 GPa. Trans Geokhim 11:1598-1613 Soave G (1972) Equilibrium constants from a modified Redlich-Kwong equation of state. Chem Eng Sei 27:1197-1203 Span R, Lemmon EW, Jacobsen RT, Wagner W, Yokozeki A (2000) A reference equation of state for the thermodynamic properties of nitrogen for temperatures from 63.151 to 1000 K and pressures to 2200 MPa. J Phys Chem R e f Data 29:1361-1433 Span RW, Wagner W ( 1 9 9 6 ) A new equation of state for carbon dioxide covering the fluid region from the triple point temperature to 1100 K at pressures up to 800 MPa. J Phys Chem Ref Data 25:1509-1596 Spycher NF, R e e d M H (1988)Fugacity coefficients of H 2 , C 0 2 , CH 4 , H 2 0 and of H 2 0 - C 0 2 - C H 4 mixtures: a virial equation treatment for moderate pressures and temperatures applicable to calculations of hydrothermal boiling. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 52:749-749 Tegeler C, Span R, Wagner W (1999) A new equation of state for argon covering the fluid region for temperatures from the melting line to 7 0 0 K at pressures up to 1000 MPa. J Phys Chem R e f Data 28:779-851 Tödheide K, Frank E U (1963) Das Zweiphasengebiet und die kritische Kurve im System Kohlendioxid-Wasser bis zu Drucken von 3500 bar. Z Phys Chem Neue Folge 37:387-401. Trusler J P M (2000) The virial equation of state. In: Equations of State for Fluids and Fluid Mixtures. Sengers JV, Kayser RF, Peters CJ, White HJ Jr (eds) Elsevier, p 35-74 van der Waals J D (1873) Over de continuiteit van de gas- en vloeistoftoestand. Dissertation, Leyden Wagner W, Pruß A (2002) The IAPWS formulation 1995 for the thermodynamic properties of ordinary water substance for general and scientific use. J Phys Chem Ref Data 31:387-535

Gottschalk

78

Wei YS, Sadus RJ (2000) Equations of state for the calculations of fluid-phase equilibria. AIChE J 46:169-196 Welsch H (1973) Die Systeme Xenon-Wasser und Methan-Wasser bei hohen Drücken und Temperaturen. Dissertation, Karlsruhe

APPENDIX A Derivations The thermodynamic treatment of fluids at elevated pressures and temperatures has been laid out in numerous publications (e.g., Gillespie 1925,1936; Beattie 1930,1949,1955, Beattie and Stockmayer 1951). For the derivation of the general accepted forms of the fugacity the so called "general limit method" is used, which avoids basically indefinite integrals8 if real fluids are handled using ideal gases as a reference model. In most textbooks of physical chemistry the "general limit method" is also used to introduce the term fugacity. While the reasoning and the derived equations are correct, it seems that many students and some teachers misunderstand the logic behind "general limit method," which leads to errors in textbooks, publications, and lecture notes, at least in geosciences. This problem is especially true for the necessary reference and standard conditions of fluids, which requires a sufficient low pressure P* such that a fluid behaves as an ideal gas. This again makes it sometimes difficult for students to get a grip on the term fugacity. In my opinion much of the confusion caused by the "general limit method" can be avoided using very similar logic, but rearranging the necessary equations. In addition no assumptions have to be made, but the principal and simple properties of an ideal gas are used directly avoiding the limit considerations. These properties are that the particles have zero volume with no acting intermolecular forces. As the resulting equations defining the fugacity are identical to the "general limit method," some intermediate results may or may not enhance the understanding of the practically used reference and standard conditions. To improve the understanding of the derivation intermediate steps are also included. Let us start from the definitions of Helmholtz and Gibbs free energies A and G using the inner energy U, the enthalpy H and the entropy S A = U -TS

(Al)

G = H -TS

(A2)

In the following the partial derivatives of A and G in respect to P and T at constant composition nt dA

= -P

(A3)

=V

(A4)

v

dG \

dA v

at

dP T,n, /

/

dG

x

= -S

v

and the chemical potentials

p

Integrals of the form J VdP are indefinite. The volume of a fluid is indefinite at a pressure of 0. o

(A5)

Equations

of State for Complex

W= v

79

Fluids

(A6)

dn.

/V,T,n„

V f ) " JP,T,n„

are used. P and T as state variables First we consider P and T as the state variables. In that case G is the appropriate state function. G as a function of P at constant T is calculated by integrating Equation (A4). The integration constant in Equation (A7) is G(Pr:T) at the respective reference pressure Pr and any T. The usual choice of Pr is 0.1 MPa. For any real system we have: \vdP

(A7)

Pure fluids. For the moment, the standard state of a fluid is the real pure fluid phase component. Pure phase components are generally designated by We will change the standard state for the fluid later, however. For such a real pure fluid i in its standard state, Equation (A7) becomes: RO

^¡(PJ)

_

RO

,

)v°dP i(Pr,T) """

(A8)

Now the first rearrangement of Equation (A8) uses the ideal gas law, where nT is the total number of moles (nT =

y_nTRT

(A9)

by expanding (e.g., Gillespie 1925) the argument in the integral of Equation (A8) _ rc ro ^ H P J ) ~ I(PR,T)

,

? I

nTRlT>RR\

P

J

pr

j k - ^ V + i

p\

• nrRT

dP

(AIO)

Within the first integral, the volume of an ideal gas is subtracted, and it must be compensated by the second integral. Now the argument in the first integral describes the deviation of the volume of a real fluid from ideal gas behavior. The second rearrangement concerns the lower integration boundary of the first integral in Equation (A10). Instead of Pn the lower boundary is changed to 0, which has to be compensated again, whereas the second integral of Equation (A10) can be solved immediately nTRT

dP + nTRTln-

(All)

For pure fluids we have G° dn•

(Al 2)

JP,T

and we get a molar quantity (molar quantities are designated here by small letters) which we can either designate as ]x°i(p T) or g°(p T) :

80

Gottschalk

r » M'i(P.r) ~ Si(p,T) ~ M'ifp D-"\ h

^ L pd p^ + r V i» W

R T

dP + RT In— P

(A13)

In Equation (A13), we have an infinite integral by the means of Gillespie (the lower integration boundary is 0), but which has a finite value and, therefore, is harmless and solvable if we have an EOS. Equation (A13) provides the definition of the fugacity coefficient for a pure fluid: dP oV

(A14)

J

Equation (A14) defines the fugacity coefficient at any pressure dependent only on the upper integration boundary, either P or Pr in Equation (A13). It is important to note that for the derivation of Equation (A14), no assumptions were necessary and no general limits have to be considered but the ideal gas law per se. As in Equation (A13) we can also write (A15) which leads with Equation (A14) to: Kpj)

= 8kj>-RT^